The village of Hobart has lost yet another court case this month against the Oneida Nation as village officials seek to keep the tribe from reclaiming its reservation land as untaxable.
Nearly the entire village, run by a non-tribal government, lies within the original 65,000-acre Oneida Reservation just west of Green Bay.
As the tribe repurchases its reservation land lost in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it typically moves to have it transferred to a federal trust under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Federal trust lands held for the benefit of sovereign tribal nations are free from jurisdiction and taxation by local governments and cannot be taken by non-tribal entities without federal approval as they had been in the past…