Even engaging in dirty politics couldn’t save the Seneca Indians’ mail-order cigarettes. On Thursday the Senate unanimously voted to ban tobacco sale through the mail, a business largely practiced by West NY's Seneca Nation. The House gave its stamp of approval to the bill last spring, but it was sidetracked when the Native Americans took up aggressive lobbying, getting other tribes on board and threatening to spend $250,000 on a smear campaign of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who supported the bill. The Senecas dubbed their efforts “a 21st-century Little Bighorn-type battle,”reports the Times. In a statement, their president was enraged: “Not one senator stood up for Indian Country; they should be ashamed of themselves for selling out our rights and local jobs” he said.