By Emma Keith Gaylord News Legislation that would eliminate blood requirements for Native landholders seeking to hold onto ancestral land passed the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday. The legislation, sponsored by the state’s four House members, amends the Stigler Act of 1947, which required current members of the Five Tribes prove they had "one-half or more of Indian blood" to retain tax exempt status for land their family had owned since the early 1900s.
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