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NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions

As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.

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View full sizeDon Heupel / APA man positions himself along the Thruway as it bisects the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Irving, N.Y., during a rally to protest the proposed New York state cigarette tax to non-Native American consumers. As New...

Cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions

As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights. "For 200 years, we have been dealing with efforts to take our land, efforts to [...]