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Article: Plate makers: Tribal vehicle tag sales on rise; they're unique to Oklahoma: Total number of tribal car tags sold.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2007
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Byline: S.E. Ruckman
Jul. 31--The number of American Indian tribal vehicle tags in Oklahoma -- the only state in which they are issued -- is going up.
The Pawhuska-based Osage Nation has issued about 10,000 -- a sharp rise from 4,000 tags sold five years ago, said Osage tax commissioner Mary Mashunkashey.
The era of tribal tags dawned when the Stroud-based Sac & Fox Nation won a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case against the Oklahoma Tax Commission, claiming that the state did not have a right to tax tribal members through car tag sales.
More than a decade later, Oklahoma remains the only state with Indian tribes that issue car tags for its ...