
Mr. Kemler frequents the Peace Pipe, one of four smoke shops on the five-square-block Poospatuck Reservation, population 220, about 70 miles east of Times Square. The Unkechaugs are one of many Indian nations, including the Seneca Nation in upstate New York and the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton, that take advantage of their right as sovereign nations to buy and sell cigarettes without paying or charging the hefty taxes from the state and the city.
