IRS Auctions Tribe’s Land to Pay Back Taxes
IRS Auctions Tribe’s Land to Pay Back Taxes
An Internal Revenue Service auction to sell 7,100 acres of South Dakota land owned by the Crow Creek Sioux to help pay more than $3 million in back taxes could not be stopped, despite a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Pierre by the tribe on Monday, Nov. 30 to block it. As reported by The Associated Press on Dec. 4, the land was sold at an auction on Thursday for nearly $2.6 million.
The AP report said that the land was part of the tribe’s original reservation established in an 1868 treaty, and was at first held in trust. But over time, it was allotted to individual tribal members and was later sold to non-indians. The Crow Creek purchased it again in 1998, but the land never went back into trust, leaving it open to seizure.
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