Five tribes with land claims in New York met on Wednesday to push for settlement of their cases and show opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Oneida Nation case.

The Cayuga Nation of New York, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe of New York, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians from Wisconsin issued a statement blasting the decision. "The Court's decision overturns fundamental bedrock principles of Indian law and unfairly subjects the Oneidas to bear the brunt of this decision," the statement read.

Meanwhile, officials in upstate New York continued to celebrate. They said the decision allows them to impose taxes on the Oneida Nation because the court ruled the tribe cannot "unilaterally" assert sovereignty over its 250,000-acre land claim area.

Get the Story:
Five land claim tribes meet (AP 3/31)
Court ruling widens options (The Utica Observer-Dispatch 3/31)
Oneida Nation's property tax bills could total millions (The Syracuse Post-Standard 3/31)
Law on the land (News 10 Now 3/31)
Dump Cayugas from offer, Nozzolio urges (The Finger Lake Times 3/31)
Sherrill wins in High Court (The Oneida Dispatch 3/30)
Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation timeline (The Oneida Dispatch 3/30)

Get the Decision:
Syllabus | Opinion [Ginsburg] | Concurrence [Souter] | Dissent [Stevens]

Relevant Links:
Oneida Nation - http://www.oneida-nation.net
NARF-NCAI Tribal Supreme Court Project - http://doc.narf.org/sc/index.html

Decision in Oneida Indian Nation v. City of Sherrill:
Majority Opinion | Van Graafeiland Dissent

Decision in Cayuga Indian Nation v. Village of Union Springs:
Decision | Order (April 23, 2004)

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