TONAWANDA (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a 54-year-old woman on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. The woman has been identified as Jennifer Pinsof of Cheektowaga. Pinsof and her two dogs were found dead in her vehicle on Saturday ...

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ALBANY — Witnesses say federal agents are conducting a raid on a warehouse on the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus reservation in western New York. John Kane, a radio broadcaster on the reservation, told The Associated Press that agents from the Bureau ...

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Attorneys want ruling on status of OneidasAttorneys representing Madison and Oneida counties want a decision on whether or not the ancient Oneida Indian reservation in Central New York has been disestablished. They are asking the full U.S. Court of Appeals ...

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The impact on Indians was not taken into consideration when the state implemented regulations for the collection of taxes on cigarettes sold to non-Indians at reservation businesses. Carol E. Heckman, a partner in Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP’s Buffalo office ...

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BUFFALO — New York's decades-old quest to tax the millions of cartons of cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Native customers was revived on Tuesday after an appeals court lifted an order blocking collection of the $4.35-per-pack tax.

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A New York appeals court is set to consider the Seneca Indian Nation's latest challenge to New York state's plans to tax reservation cigarette sales to non-Indian customers. A hearing before the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester is scheduled for today.

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BUFFALO — The legal battle against New York's plans to tax most reservation cigarette sales continues in Buffalo. Lawyers for the St. Regis Mohawk tribe of northern New York and the Unkechauges of Long Island are scheduled ...

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BUFFALO — Lawyers for the dominant Indian nation in New York’s lucrative tax-free cigarette market told a federal judge Thursday that the tribe should remain exempt from the state’s plans to tax most reservation smokeshop sales ...

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BUFFALO — A New York appeals court on Tuesday lifted a temporary order blocking the state from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American stores to non-Indian customers.

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Leaders in Seneca and Cayuga counties are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider hearing a case involving the sovereignty of the Cayuga Indian Nation.

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