Supreme Court: passage of 200 years averts tribe's assertion of sovereignty.(Indian Case Law Abstracts)

From: Native American Law Report | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Jervis, Bruce | Copyright information

City of Sherrill, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York

Supreme Court of the United States, No. 03-855 (March 29, 2005)

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Oneida Indians could not re-establish sovereignty over land within their historic reservation that had been purchased in open-market transactions. After the passage of 200 years, it would be inequitable to allow the piecemeal re-establishment of sovereignty, the court said.

The Oneida Ind...

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