Bryan v. Itasca County
Case Date: 11/04/1976
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Bryan v. Itasca County, 426 U.S. 373 (1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state did not have the right to assess a tax on the property of a Native American (Indian) living on tribal land absent a specific Congressional grant of authority to do so.
A county in Minnesota taxed an Indian's mobile home that was located on the reservation, and the court ruled that they did not have the authority to do so, nor to regulate behavior on the reservation. This case has become a landmark case that set the stage for Indian gaming on reservations and altered the economic status of almost every Indian tribe. The case has also called into question the ability of the states to impose any sort of regulations on tribal reservations, such as labor standards and certain traffic regulations.[1]
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