Legal Opinion
Poodry v. Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 16, 1996No. 492, Docket 95-7490, 95-7492, 95-7498, 95-7502 and 95-7504PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
The petitioners are members of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians, a federally recognized Indian tribe. They claim that on January 24, 1992, certain tribal officials summarily convicted them of “treason” and sentenced them to permanent “banishment” from the Tonawanda Seneca Indian Reservation (“Tonawanda Reservation”). The orders of “banishment” read in part as follows: “You are to leave now and never return---[Y|our name is removed from the Tribal rolls, your Indian name is taken away, and your lands will become the responsibility of the Council of Chiefs.…
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