By Steve Karnowski
Minneapolis, Minnesota (AP)
A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the federal government's authority to hold land in trust for Indian tribes might not affect a wealthy Minnesota tribe that's relied heavily on trust land to expand its reservation, local Indian law experts said.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, which owns the Mystic Lake Casino, has expanded its original 250-acre reservation to more than 2,800 acres in Prior Lake and Shakopee by using casino profits to buy land and put it in trust. That has sometimes put the tribe at odds with local governments because doing so takes the land off the property tax rolls and potentially affects the ability of the cities to grow.
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Judge affirms Cayuga Nation's sovereign rights
Monday, April 26, 2004
A federal judge on Friday upheld the sovereign rights of the Cayuga Nation of New York, paving the way...04-26-2004, 11:21 AM -
Here's my question:
A business associate of a friend owns a trailer park on a reservation. The park isn't owned by Natives, but some of the tenants are; one is an old war veteran.
At the moment, it's a part of the city. Could the owner sell it to the tribe?
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Carter Lake, Iowa (AP)
A federal judge has combined lawsuits filed by Nebraska and Iowa opposing the Ponca Tribe’s plans to build a casino in Carter Lake.
Iowa claimed in its lawsuit that the tribe shouldn’t be allowed to build the casino because it deceived the federal...09-25-2008, 10:51 AM -
Grove, Oklahoma (AP)
The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe has asked the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to place into trust status land the tribe wants to use to build a proposed casino.
The move represents a shift for the tribe, which had said publicly for months that trust status...01-06-2008, 06:13 PM