legislation: 116-sres-499
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| 116-sres-499 | 116 | sres | 499 | A resolution acknowledging the reprehensible policy of the United States regarding the forced relocation of the Potawatomi people from their homeland east of the Mississippi River to Kansas and Oklahoma and the devastating hardships the Potawatomi people endured during the march west, known as the "Potawatomi Trail of Death". | Native Americans | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-13 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text: CR S1078) | Senate | Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] | IN | R | Y000064 | 3 | This resolution acknowledges the extreme hardship, violence, and maltreatment inflicted on the Potawatomi people by the United States through the forcible removal of the tribe from their homeland east of the Mississippi River. The resolution also recognizes (1) the special legal and political relationship that Indian tribes have with the United States, and (2) the solemn covenant that the Potawatomi people share with the land. | 2022-02-09T01:57:09Z |