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Federal appeals court rejects Onondaga nation’s land claim

NEW YORK - The Onondaga nation's claim that they are entitled to a stretch of land down the middle of New York State, from Canada to the Pennsylvania border, has been rejected by the federal appeals court.

The court says that there was no abuse of power when the case was tossed out in 2010 before evidence was even collected.

Officials say that the claim would disrupt areas developed by generations of landowners.

The nation believed it could prove it had strongly and persistently protested development of its ancestral lands for the last 183 years.