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NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP)

06.09.2010 20:00   15 views   0 comments


FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, a rally attendee positions himself along the I-90 thruway on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation to protest the proposed New York state cigarette tax to non-Native American consumers in Irving, N.Y.  (AP Photo/Don Heupel, File)AP - 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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