ONEIDA INDIAN NATION v. COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK

No. 70-CV-35.

217 F.Supp.2d 292 (2002)

THE ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK; the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin; and the Oneida of the Thames, Plaintiffs, v. THE COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, and the County of Madison, New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

August 29, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cravath Swaine Law Firm, New York City, Thomas D. Barr, of Counsel, Zuckerman Spaeder Law Firm, Attorneys for Oneida Indian Nation of New York State, Washington, D.C., William W. Taylor, of Counsel.

Arlinda Locklear, Jefferson, MD, for Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin.

Paul Weiss Law Firm, Attorneys for Plaintiff Oneida of The Thames Council, New York City, Carey R. Ramos, of Counsel.

Nixon Peabody Law Firm, Attorneys for County of Oneida, New York & County of Madison, New York, Rochester, NY, G. Robert Witmer, Jr., of Counsel.


AMENDED MEMORANDUM & DECISION & ORDER

MCCURN, Senior District Judge.

Introduction

Through a series of treaties between 1795 and 1846, the State "divest[ed] the Oneidas1 of all but a few hundred acres[]" of their extensive land holdings in central New York. See Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. Oneida County, 719 F.2d 525, 529 (2d Cir.1983) ("Oneida...

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