Joaqlin Estus, Author at Center for Public Integrity

Teresa Rutherford gazes at her under-construction house from the second level. It's the wooden bones of the home, with light streaming in the windows.

Tribes need tax revenue. States keep taking it.

by Maya Srikrishnan, Shannon Shaw Duty and Joaqlin Estus December 20, 2022May 23, 2023

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. […]