EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents a question of first impression: Are an Indian tribe's distributions of accumulated rents from unallotted tribal trust land taxable income to tribal members who receive the payments? The district court concluded that because the distributions are not exempt specifically by statute or treaty and taxing them does not implicate an encumbrance on any property interest, they are taxable income. We affirm.
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