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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2003

A New York county filed a brief in response to the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe's land rights lawsuit.

The tribe was removed from New York to Oklahoma. Recently, it purchased 229 acres of land within its ancestral territory and plans to build a Class II bingo hall there.

Local officials say the land isn't Indian Country. Cayuga County's brief claims the tribe abandoned its rights in New York by agreeing to removal.

Get the Story:
County challenges tribe's land claim (The Syracuse Post-Standard 6/27)

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