2005
Court decisionBook sources
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation
New York; Oneida Indian Nation
The Supreme Court restricted the Nation’s ability to revive sovereign tax immunity by buying ancestral land on the open market. Dunbar-Ortiz connects the decision to the continued legal legacy of discovery doctrine.
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Context / qualification
The specific holding is narrower than saying the Court abolished Oneida sovereignty.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11