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The Colville Indian Reservation is a confederation of twelve American Indiantribes located in Washington. The tribes are considered a single sovereign American Indian tribe and are often called the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.
As of 2000, the reservation sits upon 1.4 million acres (5,700 km˛) of land, and has a total tribal enrollment of 8,700 [1] (http://www.colvilletribes.com/demograph.htm).
The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in eastern Washington State, inhabited and managed by ConfederatedTribes of the ColvilleReservation, which is recognized by the United States of America as an American Indian Tribe.
The ConfederatedTribes have 8,700 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes.
The tribes are known in English as: the Colville, the Nespelem, the San Poil, the Lake, the Palus, the Wenatchi, the Chelan, the Entiat, the Methow, the southern Okanogan, the Moses Columbia, and the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph's Band.
The Colville, Lummi, and Makah Reservations are isolated and underdeveloped.
The power to tax transactions occurring on trust lands and significantly involving a tribe or its members is a fundamental attribute of sovereignty which the tribes retain unless divested of it by federal law or necessary implication of their dependent status.
The incidence of the Colville, Lummi, and Makah taxes falls on the cigarette purchaser, since the tribal ordinances specify that the tax is to be passed on to the ultimate consumer.
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