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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 ...
The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical territory was near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today they have three tribes based in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Their federally recognized tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
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]
The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa is one of three federally recognized Native American tribes of Sac and Meskwaki (Fox) peoples in the United States. The Fox call themselves Meskwaki and because they are the dominant people in this tribe, it is also simply called the Meskwaki Nation ( Meskwaki : Meshkwahkîhaki , meaning: "People ...
In 1851 the Iowa state legislature passed an unusual act to allow the Fox to buy land and stay in the state. Other Sac and Fox were removed to Indian territory in what became Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. In the 21st century, two federally recognized tribes of "Sac and Fox" have reservations, and one has a settlement.
The Iowa and Sac & Fox Mission State Historic Site, also known as the Highland Presbyterian Mission, is the site of a mission that housed the children of two local tribes between 1845 and 1863. A historic Presbyterian mission building at the site, near Highland, Kansas , has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970 ...
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 ...
The tribe holds a large pow-wow at the settlement each year. [9] Legislation in 2018 restored the Meskwaki Nation's legal jurisdiction over tribal members within the settlement boundaries. [10] [11] The state of Iowa continues to exercise jurisdiction over pre-2018 legal cases and non-tribal citizens on tribal land. [12] [13]