PENDER, Neb. (AP) — Attorneys say the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Pender is within the boundaries of the Omaha Indian Reservation doesn’t mean the tribe can begin collecting from local businesses a tribal tax on liquor sales.

On Tuesday the high court upheld lower court rulings favoring the tribe, saying that Congress did not diminish the Omaha Indian Reservation in 1882 when it allowed the Omaha Tribe to sell portions of the reservation to non-Indians.

The tribe began subjecting Pender retailers to a newly amended ordinance in 2006, imposing a 10 percent sales tax on liquor sales. The business owners sued.

The tribe’s attorney general, Maurice Johnson, and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson say the ruling only confirmed that Pender is part of the reservation and didn’t answer the tax issue.