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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:11:54 -0700
To: "List, Nez Perce Treaties" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Charles Petras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nez Perce Treaties : Lewis County decides to tax Indians' fee
   land

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Lewiston Morning Tribune (Lewiston, Idaho)
Thursday, July 29, 1999. p. 6A.



Lewis County decides to tax Indians' fee land
* Tribal member plans to appeal

BY JODI WALKER
OF THE TRIBUNE

NEZ PERCE -- The Lewis County commissioners have denied
property tax exemptions on seven properties owned by the Nez
Perce Tribe and one owned by a tribal member within the
county.
      The decision was made in the wake of a U.S. Supreme
Court decision that said fee land owned by tribal members
could be taxed.
      Fee land is land that is within reservation boundaries
but has been sold into private ownership.
      "We are following the code," said Commissioner Laurine
Nightingale. A letter from the Idaho attorney general earlier
this year gave counties the go-ahead to tax the properties.
The letter gave little indication of state support to do it,
however.
      "The state doesn't have enough confidence to bring it
themselves," said Tom Keefe, who with his wife, JoAnn
Kauffman, applied for tax exemption on their property in
Kamiah and were turned down. Kauffman is an enrolled member
of the Nez Perce Tribe.
      "I am puzzled at the poor judgment of local officials,"
Kauffman said.
      She and Keefe will appeal the decision and she expects
the tribe will do the same in the other cases.
      "I fully expect the support of my tribe," she said. "The
Nez Perce Tribe has taken the position that fee land within
the reservation is not subject to local or state taxation."
      Tribal officials did not return phone calls from the
Tribune.
      Kauffman and Keefe have owned the property in Kamiah for
a year and a half. They were given the tax exemption last
year.
      Several tribal members were given exemptions last year,
Nightingale said, but were told it would only be for one
year, pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.<<


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