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... The Tseycum Nation claims the pair’s rented $18-million mansion is built on land “stolen” by British colonizers almost two centuries ago. “We get no money from the land now, nothing. But for us, it’s just not right houses like that are built there,” Chief Tanya Jimmy told the Sunday Mirror. Brits settled on Vancouver Island around 1843. Harry and Meghan spent six-weeks over the Christmas holidays at the posh palace, believed to be owned by a Russian oligarch. And since the couple severed their ties with the Royal Family, it appears that Vancouver Island will be the pair’s base...

AUBURN NY--A federal Department of Interior official said the U.S. Supreme Court's city of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation decision applies to the Cayuga Nation's purchase of land within their land claim area on the open market. Based on the Sherrill decision, when taxes are not paid, the Cayuga Nation's property would be subject to foreclosure, Associate Deputy Secretary James Carson wrote in a Sept. 22 letter to U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford. Boehlert had contacted the department of behalf of Seneca County attorney Steven Getman. Carson wrote that questions about the legality of the tribe's bingo halls in...

Seneca County is following Cayuga County's lead and will challenge the sovereignty of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York. "We plan to push the issue. If they don't cooperate with us, we won't cooperate with them," Robert Shipley, chairman of the Seneca County Board of Supervisors, said Wednesday. Lawmakers there agreed Tuesday night to enforce local regulations on the nation's properties in the county, including testing the Cayugas' gasoline pumps in Seneca Falls for weights and measures accuracy at an undisclosed date. If the nation resists the county's attempt to inspect the pumps, Shipley said he would send reinforcements....

<p>ALBANY -- The state Legislature's top Republican acknowledged Tuesday that an Indian tribe from Oklahoma has expressed interest in operating two casinos in western New York.</p> <p>State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno acknowledged that the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has been in touch with his office a few times, once in person accompanied by local officials.</p>

SYRACUSE - U.S. District Court Judge Neal P. McCurn Monday reaffirmed his decision to award the Cayuga Indian Nation $247.9 million in damages in its 22-year-old land claim case. McCurn's decision came in response to briefs and motions filed last year asking him to modify the award. The Cayuga Nation has sued for the return of more than 64,000 acres of former reservation land in Seneca and Cayuga counties, which they claim was taken from them illegally by the state 200 years ago. McCurn awarded $36.9 million in damages and $211 million in interest in a two-phase trial that began...