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Shannon Shaw, Osage News

Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage, is the editor of the Osage News.

Bo Mazzetti stands in the foreground of the government building with the seal of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians in San Diego, California. He is wearing a suit and his hands are folded. The tribe's seal is black with gold lettering.

Tribes need tax revenue. States keep taking it.

By: Maya Srikrishnan, Center for Public Integrity, Shannon Shaw, Osage News and Joaqlin Estus, ICT - December 23, 2022

OSAGE NATION — On a crisp November morning, Teresa Bates Rutherford gazed at the construction site of her future home — her mind on her tax struggle with the state of Oklahoma. The trust land she is building on has passed down through generations of her family on the Osage Reservation, located in northeastern Oklahoma. […]

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