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Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac & Fox Nation, 508 U.S. 114 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that absent explicit congressional direction to the contrary, it must be presumed that a State does not have jurisdiction to tax tribal members who live and work in Indian country, whether the particular territory consists of a formal or informal reservation ...
Official Site of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa/Meskwaki Nation – the Meskwaki; Official Site of the Sac and Fox Nation (of Oklahoma) – the Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki; Official Site of the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska – the Ne ma ha ha ki; General information to Sac and Fox; Sauk Language, Sac and ...
The US Supreme Court ruled in the tribe's favor of its independent sovereignty on May 17, 1993, in Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac & Fox Nation. Other tribes have since established their own systems for vehicle registration on tribal lands. The Sac and Fox Nation celebrate May 17 as "Victory Day." [2]
Debra Shopteese (Sac and Fox Nation) [70] [71] Massachusetts State District Court (2011–present) Massachusetts: active: Barbara Smith (Chickasaw Nation) [72] District Court Judge for the Chickasaw Nation; Supreme Court of the Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma: deceased: Terri Smith (Northern Arapaho Tribe) [73] Wind River Indian Reservation Tribal ...
Ely S. Parker, the first indigenous plaintiff to prevail in the U.S. Supreme Court. The two aboriginal title cases involving indigenous litigants to reach the Taney Court both involved the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians and the Tonawanda Reservation, both argued by John H. Martindale (first as the district attorney of Genesee County, New York, then in private practice), and both originated ...
Smith preaching to the Sac and Fox Indians who visited Nauvoo on August 12, 1841. In February 1841, Nauvoo received a charter from the state of Illinois, which granted the Latter Day Saints a considerable degree of autonomy. Smith threw himself into the work of building a new city.
Meskwakiinaki, [3] also called the Meskwaki Settlement, is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. [4] It encompasses the lands of the Meskwaki Nation (federally recognized as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa), one of three Sac and Fox tribes in the United States.
The town of Greenwood is located where the Sac and Fox Agency used to be. It was here where Keokuk and the other Sac nation members were relocated after the Black Hawk War. When the Indians were removed it was determined to start a town. Judge G. B. Greenwood, of Arkansas, then United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, assisted in making ...