Finger Lakes Times, “Ruling may stymie Cayugas/Counties hail decision; Tribe says it doesn’t apply,” February 25, 2009. The Reveille/Between the Lakes, “Court decision hurts Cayugas,” February 26, 2009.
Stories by the Finger Lakes Times and The Reveille/Between the Lakes drew comparisons between the Cayuga Indian Nation’s land into trust application and the February 24th United States Supreme Court’s decision that the federal government could not accept into federal trust a 31 acre parcel of land owned by the Narragansett Indian Tribe in Rhode Island. The court ruled the federal government can only take land in trust from tribes officially recognized by the federal government as of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. Local officials said the ruling applies to the Cayuga Indian Nation’s pending application to put approximately 130 acres of land in Seneca and Cayuga Counties into trust.
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