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· 5/16/1867

The New York Indians

Citations

  • 72 U.S. 761
  • 18 L. Ed. 708
  • 5 Wall. 761
  • 1866 U.S. LEXIS 977

How courts have described this case

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  • striking down a New York statute that imposed property taxes on an Indian reservation but purported to preserve the Indians’ continued right to occupy such lands
  • rejecting state attempt to tax reservation lands
  • voiding New York’s taxation of Seneca reservation land

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Judges: Nelson

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