51.   Some tribes, for example, believe it is unfair to pay state fuel taxes on gasoline pumps on Indian land.

52.   Starna said all the five pending Indian land claims in New York could have been resolved years ago, and on various occasions, some of them nearly were.

53.   Stoddard said in his complaint that any land that has not been properly transferred, by deed or treaty, remains Indian land.

54.   That means tribal cigarettes could not only continue their edge on Indian land, but even off reservations in some states.

55.   The argument that the existence of casinos on Indian lands should open the gates to non-Indian casinos is equally wrong.

56.   The bill would also allow states to sue tribes in federal court for the collection of sales taxes on purchases made by non-Indians on Indian lands.

57.   The bill also prohibits gaming on certain federally owned Indian lands in California.

58.   The company, owned by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, runs the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota, on Indian land.

59.   The court said the act required the secretary of the Interior to step in and devise rules for gambling on Indian lands if states refused to adopt a compact.

60.   The entire history of European settlement in the New World is one of encroachment on Indian lands.