Cigarettes I hear went up on average $7.00 a carton, due to a new tax imposed by Obama. I thought the seneca nation was not obliged to pay any taxes?
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The Senecas and all other federally recognized Indian nations and tribes are domestic dependent sovereigns. As such they are not subject to certain state laws. The United States Supreme Court has stated in Nevada v. Hicks, 533 U.S. 353, 121 S.Ct. 2304, 150 L.Ed. 2d 398, "Our cases make clear that the Indians' right to make their own laws and be governed by them does not exclude all state regulatory authority on the reservation. State sovereignty does not end at a reservation's border. Though tribes are often referred to as "sovereign" entities, it was "long ago" that "the Court departed from Chief Justice Marshall's view that `the laws of [a State] can have no force' within reservation boundaries. Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Pet. 515, 561 (1832)," White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker, 448 U. S. 136, 141 (1980). "Ordinarily," it is now clear, "an Indian reservation is considered part of the territory of the State." U. S. Dept. of Interior, Federal Indian Law 510, and n. 1 (1958), citing Utah & Northern R. Co. v. Fisher, 116 U. S. 28 (1885); see also Organized Village of Kake v. Egan, 369 U. S. 60, 72 (1962)."
This is why the Seneca Gaming Corp had to obtain a state liquor license in order to sell alcohol at its casinos.
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