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| 106-hr-5681 | 106 | hr | 5681 | Regarding the use of the trust land and resources of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. | Native Americans | 2000-12-15 | 2000-12-15 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2] | OR | R | W000791 | 0 | Allows any restricted lands held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon to be leased by the Indian owners, with the Secretary of the Interior's approval, for terms of not to exceed 99 years for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, or certain other purposes.Approves the use of tribal lands, resources, and other assets for economic development as described in the Long-Term Global Settlement and Compensation Agreement and its Included Agreements between the Department of the Interior, the Tribes, and the Portland General Electric Company. Ratifies authorization, execution, and delivery of such Agreement by such parties and authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take necessary actions to approve and implement it. | 2025-01-02T17:15:40Z | |
| 106-hr-5528 | 106 | hr | 5528 | Omnibus Indian Advancement Act | Native Americans | 2000-10-24 | 2000-12-27 | Became Public Law No: 106-568. | House | Rep. Thune, John [R-SD-At Large] | SD | R | T000250 | 0 | Omnibus Indian Advancement Act - Title I: Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Irrigation Works - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community all rights and interests of the United States in and to the irrigation works on the Community's reservation which were formerly operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Grants the Community full ownership and operating authority on the date of conveyance of the works.Requires the operation of the works consistent with specified standards, including those for: (1) equitable distribution of water; and (2) a due process system for determination of any request for distribution of water.Cancels on the conveyance date any charges for construction of the works that were deferred.Provides that, upon such date, the works shall no longer be considered a BIA irrigation project and will not be eligible for Federal benefits based solely on the fact that the works were formerly such a project.Title II: Native Hawaiian Housing Assistance - Hawaiian Homelands Homeownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth p… | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-5523 | 106 | hr | 5523 | Native Americans Equal Rights Act | Native Americans | 2000-10-19 | 2000-11-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families. | House | Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7] | PA | R | W000268 | 0 | Native Americans Equal Rights Act - Repeals the Indian Preference Act and other specified provisions of law relating to Indian preferences with respect to Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Services positions, Federal grants and contracts, and civil rights law exemptions. | 2025-08-20T14:19:28Z | |
| 106-hr-5494 | 106 | hr | 5494 | To ensure that certain property which was taken into trust by the United States for the benefit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama to protect such land from development shall not be used for gaming. | Native Americans | 2000-10-18 | 2000-10-18 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Riley, Bob [R-AL-3] | AL | R | R000258 | 1 | Prohibits class II and class III gaming on Hickory Ground (land held in trust for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama). Directs the Attorney General to investigate whether such gaming is being conducted and to take action to enforce such prohibition. | 2025-01-02T17:15:27Z | |
| 106-hr-5498 | 106 | hr | 5498 | To permit landowners to assert otherwise available State law defenses against real property claims by Indian tribes. | Native Americans | 2000-10-18 | 2000-10-18 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Ewing, Thomas W. [R-IL-15] | IL | R | E000282 | 0 | Permits the defendant in any real property claim by an Indian tribe to assert any defense that would be available under State law to a defendant opposing an analogous claim that does not involve an Indian tribe. | 2025-01-02T17:15:27Z | |
| 106-hr-5477 | 106 | hr | 5477 | To provide that gaming shall not be allowed on certain Indian trust lands in California that were purchased with certain Federal grant funds. | Native Americans | 2000-10-17 | 2000-11-14 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52] | CA | R | H000981 | 2 | Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, prior to January 1, 2003, from approving the relinquishment of any lease entered into for the establishment of a health care facility for the members of seven Indian tribes or bands in San Diego County, California, unless such lease's relinquishment has been approved by tribal resolution by each of the tribes or bands. | 2025-01-02T17:15:27Z | |
| 106-s-3182 | 106 | s | 3182 | Five Nations Citizens Land Reform Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-10-10 | 2000-10-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] | OK | R | I000024 | 0 | Five Nations Citizens Land Reform Act of 2000 - Title I: Restrictions; Removal of Restrictions - Makes restricted property subject to restrictions against alienation, lease, mortgage, and other encumbrances regardless of the degree of Indian blood of the citizen who owns such property. Defines "restricted property" as any right, title, or interest in real property owned by an Indian citizen that is subject to encumbrances imposed by U.S. laws expressly applicable to the property of enrollees and descendants of enrollees on the final Indian rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw (of Oklahoma), Seminole (of Oklahoma), and Muscogee (Creek) Nations) in 1906 (Five Nations).Title II: Administrative Approval of Conveyances, Partitions, Leases, and Mortgages; Management of Mineral Interests - Grants the Secretary of the Interior exclusive jurisdiction to approve: (1) conveyances and leases of restricted property by an Indian citizen; and (2) the partition of property located within the last treaty boundaries of one or more of the Five Nations, all of which is held in common by more than one Indian citizen owner, under certain circumstances. Requires approval of mineral leases purporting to convey or create any interest in restricted or trust property by the Secretary.Title III: Probate, Heirship Determination, and Other Judicial Proceedings - Prohibits the courts of the State of Oklahoma from having jurisdiction over actions affecting title to, or use or disposition of, trust or restricted property except as authorized by Federal law. Grants the Secretary exclusive jurisdiction to probate wills or determine heirs of Indian citizens and to adjudicate estate actions to the extent that they involve individual or restricted property.Title IV: Miscellaneous - Repeals provisions of specified laws.Sets forth authorities of Department of the Interior attorneys with respect to actions involving restricted property. | 2025-08-20T14:19:35Z | |
| 106-hr-5398 | 106 | hr | 5398 | To provide that land which is owned by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana but which is not held in trust by the United States for the Tribe may be leased or transferred by the Tribe without further approval by the United States. | Native Americans | 2000-10-05 | 2000-10-18 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7] | LA | D | J000110 | 0 | Allows the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to lease, sell, convey, warrant, or otherwise transfer all or any part of its interest in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States. | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-5403 | 106 | hr | 5403 | Miami Nation of Indiana Act | Native Americans | 2000-10-05 | 2000-10-05 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-4] | IN | R | S001143 | 0 | Miami Nation of Indiana Act - Restores Federal recognition and associated rights and privileges to the Miami Nation of Indiana. Entitles the tribe and its members to all services and benefits provided to recognized Indian tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation.Provides for any lands in Indiana transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, including any of the Tribe's former trust lands, to be taken into trust for the Tribe as part of its reservation.Reserves all rights by the Tribe to engage in all classes of gaming. Declares that class III gaming shall only be allowed with congressional approval. | 2025-08-20T14:18:35Z | |
| 106-hr-5374 | 106 | hr | 5374 | Santo Domingo Pueblo Claims Settlement Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-10-03 | 2000-10-03 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3] | NM | D | U000039 | 0 | Santo Domingo Pueblo Claims Settlement Act of 2000 - Approves the May 2000 Settlement Agreement between the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Justice and the Pueblo of Santo Domingo (New Mexico) to Resolve All of the Pueblo's Land Title and Trespass Claims.Extinguishes certain Pueblo land and trespass claims. Sets forth provisions relating to the treatment of land or natural resources transferred by the Pueblo prior to this Act's enactment and ratifies such transfers. Makes this paragraph effective upon the entry of a compromise final judgment in the case of Pueblo of Santo Domingo v. United States.Establishes the Pueblo of Santo Domingo Land Claims Settlement Fund from which funds may be expended by the Pueblo to acquire lands within the exterior boundaries of the exclusive aboriginal occupancy area of the Pueblo and for other tribal purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits disbursal of amounts in the Fund until: (1) the case of Pueblo of Santo Domingo v. Rael has been dismissed with prejudice; and (2) the compromise final judgment described above has been entered in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.Declares the boundaries of the Santo Domingo Pueblo Grant as determined by the 1907 Hall-Joy Survey to be the current boundaries and that any lands currently owned or hereafter acquired by the Pueblo within such boundaries or the Grant shall be considered to be Indian country.Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by exchange specified New Mexico trust lands and interests, including improvements, mineral rights, and water rights. Requires the properties so exchanged to be of approximately equal value. Requires the Secretary to convey such lands to the Pueblo of Santo Domingo and grants the Pueblo the exclusive right to acquire them. Permits the conveyance of such lands by the Pueblo to the Secretary who shall hold them in trust for the Pueblo's benefit.Authorizes the exchange of the Pueblo's restricted land for lands private title to which was put at issue in Pueblo of Santo Domingo v. Rae… | 2025-08-20T14:20:11Z | |
| 106-hr-5322 | 106 | hr | 5322 | Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act | Native Americans | 2000-09-27 | 2000-09-27 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-40] | CA | R | L000274 | 3 | Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act - Mandates that all U.S. rights and interests to specified California and Nevada lands be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of California and Nevada. Provides development and other limitations with respect to such lands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to purchase additional lands and appurtenant water rights in trust for the Tribe's use. Recognizes certain special use areas, including the mesquite use area, a buffer area, and the Timbisha Shoshone natural and cultural preservation area.Provides that the trust lands shall constitute the Timbisha Shoshone Reservation.Directs the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Tribe to develop protocols to review planned development in Death Valley National Park (the site of the Tribe's ancestral homeland). Authorizes cooperative agreements for providing training on the interpretation, management, protection, and preservation of the natural and cultural resources of the Tribe's special use areas. | 2025-08-20T14:18:49Z | |
| 106-hr-5308 | 106 | hr | 5308 | Five Nations Citizens Land Reform Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-09-26 | 2000-10-18 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Watkins, Wes [R-OK-3] | OK | R | W000194 | 2 | Five Nations Citizens Land Reform Act of 2000 - Title I: Restrictions; Removal of Restrictions - Makes restricted property subject to restrictions against alienation, lease, mortgage, and other encumbrances regardless of the degree of Indian blood of the citizen who owns such property. Defines "restricted property" as any right, title, or interest in real property owned by an Indian citizen that is subject to encumbrances imposed by U.S. laws expressly applicable to the property of enrollees and descendants of enrollees on the final Indian rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw (of Oklahoma), Seminole (of Oklahoma), and Muscogee (Creek) Nations) in 1906 (Five Nations).Continues such restrictions with respect to restricted property upon the acquisition of such property by an Indian citizen by, among other things, inheritance, exchange, election to take at partition, or purchase.(Sec. 103) Extends the period of restriction against encumbrances of restricted property and funds belonging to Indian citizens, subject to provisions of this Act that permit the removal of restrictions, until an Act of Congress determines otherwise.(Sec. 104) Authorizes an Indian citizen who owns restricted property to apply to the Secretary of the Interior for an order removing restrictions on any interest in such property held by such citizen.(Sec. 105) Applies to restricted property provisions of existing law that provide exemptions from prior claims and make unrestricted lands subject to taxation.(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Secretary, upon application by an Indian citizen owner of an undivided unrestricted interest in property which contains a portion of restricted interests, to convert an unrestricted interest into restricted status if all of the interests in the property are owned by Indian citizens as tenants in common.Title II: Administrative Approval of Conveyances, Partitions, Leases, and Mortgages; Management of Mineral Interests - Grants the Secretary of the Interior exclusive jurisdiction to approve: (1… | 2025-01-02T17:15:14Z | |
| 106-s-3114 | 106 | s | 3114 | Native American Telecommunications Improvement and Value Enhancement Act | Native Americans | 2000-09-26 | 2000-09-26 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] | MT | D | B000243 | 2 | Native American Telecommunications Improvement and Value Enhancement Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to make loans to eligible Indian tribes, or tribal entities that have entered into a partnership with a telecommunications carrier, to enable such tribes to provide for the development of telecommunications infrastructure (wireline or wireless) on lands under their jurisdiction. Outlines tribal eligibility requirements, including submission of a telecommunications plan.Establishes in the Treasury the Native American Telecommunications Improvement Revolving Fund to make loans and award grants to eligible tribes. Limits loan interest rates dependent upon tribal per capita income.Directs the Secretary to award grants to enable tribes to conduct feasibility studies with respect to telecommunications projects. Limits grants to $200,000.Authorizes appropriations for such loans and grants.Terminates the program on the earlier of: (1) ten years after the first loan is made; or (2) the date on which the Secretary determines that the telecommunications penetration rate is at least 90 percent of all households on reservation lands. | 2025-08-20T14:17:45Z | |
| 106-hr-5244 | 106 | hr | 5244 | Tribal-State Tax Fairness Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-09-21 | 2000-09-21 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5] | PA | R | P000263 | 5 | Tribal-State Tax Fairness Act of 2000 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, within 60 days after receiving a petition from the government of a State within which a tribal retail enterprise is located alleging the non-collection of a covered State tax (a tax imposed on the purchase of tobacco products or motor fuel) by such enterprise: (1) to determine whether the enterprise is properly collecting and remitting such State tax; and (2) if it is not, to notify and direct the enterprise to collect such tax and remit it to the Secretary on a monthly basis. Provides for the determination of the amount to be so remitted (which differs depending on the existence or non- existence of a tribal-State agreement). Requires mediation if such amount cannot be determined. Requires the Secretary to return remitted amounts to the State within 30 days.Provides for the mediation of disputes between tribes and States under tribal-State agreements, with enforcement provisions. Allows any person with information that a tribe is not remitting appropriate covered State taxes to submit such information to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to commence an administrative action for appropriate State relief. Provides for judicial review of determinations made by the Secretary. | 2025-08-20T14:18:23Z | |
| 106-hr-5207 | 106 | hr | 5207 | Shawnee Tribe Status Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-09-19 | 2000-09-19 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Coburn, Tom [R-OK-2] | OK | R | C000560 | 0 | Shawnee Tribe Status Act of 2000 - Provides for Federal recognition of the Shawnee Tribe as a distinct Indian tribe.Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians.Requires the Tribe to submit its base membership roll to the Secretary of the Interior for approval.Recognizes the Tribe's constitution and bylaws and governing body.Makes the Tribe eligible to have land acquired in trust for its benefit.Grants the Tribe jurisdiction over its and its members' trust and restricted land. | 2025-08-20T14:18:19Z | |
| 106-s-3031 | 106 | s | 3031 | Native American Laws Technical Corrections Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-09-12 | 2000-10-12 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 949. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Native American Laws Technical Corrections Act of 2000 - Title I: Miscellaneous Technical Provisions - Amends the Indian Self-Determination Act to modify the self-determination model agreement to make inapplicable to self-determination contracts provisions of law permitting the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes to make contracts involving the payment of money. Makes such provisions inapplicable to professional contracts by Indian tribal governments participating in self-governance as well.(Sec. 102) Repeals provisions of law restricting the assignment of contracts with Indians and requiring approval of such assignments by the Secretary of the Interior.Repeals provisions of the Federal criminal code relating to penalties for: (1) receiving money contrary to certain provisions regarding Indian contracts for services; and (2) receiving money in connection with certain Indian enrollment contracts pertaining to the Five Civilized Tribes.(Sec. 103) Cancels the balances of all expert assistance loans made to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, respectively, relating to certain Court of Federal Claims cases. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to take actions to document such cancellations and to release the Band and Tribe from any liability associated with such loans.(Sec. 105) Extends through FY 2001 the authorization of appropriations for, and the duration of, each program under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and the Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986.(Sec. 107) Amends the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to: (1) provide that the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation develop resources to properly train Native American and Alaska Native professionals in health care and public policy (currently) by conducting management and leadership training of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and oth… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-3013 | 106 | s | 3013 | To make technical amendments concerning contracts affecting certain Indian tribes in Oklahoma, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 2000-09-07 | 2000-09-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] | OK | R | I000024 | 0 | Amends the Indian Self-Determination Act to modify the self-determination model agreement to make inapplicable to self-determination contracts provisions of law permitting the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes to make contracts involving the payment of money. Makes such provisions inapplicable to professional contracts by Indian tribal governments participating in self-governance as well.Repeals provisions of law restricting the assignment of contracts with Indians and requiring approval of such assignments by the Secretary of the Interior.Repeals provisions of the Federal criminal code relating to penalties for: (1) receiving money contrary to certain provisions regarding Indian contracts for services; and (2) receiving money in connection with certain Indian enrollment contracts pertaining to the Five Civilized Tribes. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-3019 | 106 | s | 3019 | Shawnee Tribe Status Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-09-07 | 2000-09-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] | OK | R | I000024 | 0 | Shawnee Tribe Status Act of 2000 - Provides for Federal recognition of the Shawnee Tribe as a distinct Indian tribe.Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians.Requires the Tribe to submit its base membership roll to the Secretary of the Interior for approval.Recognizes the Tribe's constitution and bylaws and governing body.Makes the Tribe eligible to have land acquired in trust for its benefit.Grants the Tribe jurisdiction over its and its members' trust and restricted land. | 2025-08-20T14:19:29Z | |
| 106-hr-5073 | 106 | hr | 5073 | Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-07-27 | 2000-08-11 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8] | VA | D | M000933 | 2 | Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2000 - Title I: Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Extends Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe of Virginia. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all future services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian reservation. Deems the Tribe's service area to be Charles City County, Virginia.(Sec. 104) Sets forth requirements for the Tribe with respect to submission of a membership roll, adoption of a constitution, and election of officials.(Sec. 106) Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if the Tribe, no later than 25 years after this Act's enactment date, transfers land within the counties of Charles City, James City, or Henrico to the Secretary, to take such land into trust for the Tribe's benefit.Title II: Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Eastern Division - Extends Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Eastern Division of Virginia. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all future services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian reservation. Deems the Tribe's service area to be New Kent County, Virginia.(Sec. 204) Sets forth requirements for the Tribe with respect to submission of a membership roll, adoption of a constitution, and election of officials.(Sec. 206) Requires the Secretary, if the Tribe, no later than 25 years after this Act's enactment date, transfers land within the counties of New Kent, James City, or Henrico to the Secretary, to take such land into trust for the Tribe's benefit.Title III: Mattaponi Tribe - Extends Federal recognition to the Mattaponi Tribe of Virginia. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all future services and benefits provided b… | 2025-08-20T14:19:40Z | |
| 106-s-2978 | 106 | s | 2978 | Tribal College or University Teacher Loan Forgiveness Act | Native Americans | 2000-07-27 | 2000-07-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7893) | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 12 | Tribal College or University Teacher Loan Forgiveness Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the cancellation of a specified percentage of the total amount of any Federal Perkins loan, Federal Family Education loan, or direct student loan for each year of employment (up to five) as a full-time teacher at a tribal college or university if the borrower is not in default on such loan. Prohibits a borrower from receiving, for the same service, such a benefit and a national service educational award. | 2025-08-20T14:18:34Z | |
| 106-s-2917 | 106 | s | 2917 | Santo Domingo Pueblo Claims Settlement Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-07-25 | 2000-11-01 | Became Public Law No: 106-425. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 1 | Santo Domingo Pueblo Claims Settlement Act of 2000 - Approves the May 2000 Settlement Agreement between the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Justice and the Pueblo of Santo Domingo (New Mexico) to Resolve All of the Pueblo's Land Title and Trespass Claims.Extinguishes certain Pueblo land and trespass claims. Sets forth provisions relating to the treatment of land or natural resources transferred by the Pueblo prior to this Act's enactment date and ratifies such transfers. Makes this paragraph effective upon the entry of a compromise final judgment in the case of Pueblo of Santo Domingo v. United States.Establishes the Pueblo of Santo Domingo Land Claims Settlement Fund to be expended by the Pueblo to acquire lands within the exterior boundaries of the exclusive aboriginal occupancy area of the Pueblo and for use for other tribal purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits disbursal of amounts in the Fund until: (1) the case of Pueblo of Santo Domingo v. Rael has been dismissed with prejudice; and (2) the compromise final judgment described above has been entered in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.Declares the boundaries of the Santo Domingo Pueblo Grant, as determined by the 1907 Hall-Joy Survey, to be the current boundaries of the Grant and that any lands currently owned or hereafter acquired by the Pueblo within such boundaries or the Grant shall be considered to be Indian country. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2920 | 106 | s | 2920 | Indian Gaming Regulatory Improvement Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-07-25 | 2000-10-11 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 948. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Indian Gaming Regulatory Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to make the Gambling Devices Transportation Act inapplicable to class II gaming where technologic aids are used in connection with such gaming. Provides for a strategic plan for National Indian Gaming Commission activities, including a performance plan.Directs the Commission to establish a schedule of fees to be paid annually by each gaming operation that conducts a class II or III Indian gaming activity. Provides fee rates. Limits to $8 million the total amount of fees imposed in a fiscal year. Requires quarterly fee payment. Requires the aggregate amount of fees assessed to be reasonably related to the costs of Commission services provided to Indian tribes. Outlines specified factors to be considered in such determination, including the extent of regulation of the gaming activity by the State or Indian tribe, and the extent of Indian self-regulating activities. Requires the Commission to consult with Indian tribes in establishing the fee schedule.Requires all fees and civil forfeitures collected by the Commission pursuant to the Act to be maintained in separate, segregated accounts and to be expended only for the purposes set forth in the Act.Places class I gaming on Indian lands within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Indian tribes. Requires an Indian tribe, in a manner that meets or exceeds Federal minimum standards, to retain the rights with respect to class II gaming activities to: (1) monitor and regulate gaming; (2) conduct background investigations; and (3) establish and regulate internal control systems. Requires an Indian tribe or a State to conduct such activities with respect to class III gaming conducted under a compact entered into with the Commission, or under a related tribal ordinance or resolution.Authorizes the Commission to provide grants and technical assistance to Indian tribes for training and assistance related to Indian gaming. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2909 | 106 | s | 2909 | A bill to permit landowners to assert otherwise-available state law defenses against property claims by Indian tribes. | Native Americans | 2000-07-24 | 2000-07-24 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7482) | Senate | Sen. Fitzgerald, Peter [R-IL] | IL | R | F000442 | 0 | Permits the defendant in any action or claim by or on behalf of an Indian tribe to enforce a real property right or otherwise asserting a claim of Indian title or right (except in any action or claim against a governmental entity with respect to land that is located within sovereign Indian country) to assert any affirmative defense that would be available under State law to a defendant opposing an analogous action or claim that does not involve an Indian tribe.Provides that the court shall allow the prevailing party a reasonable attorney's fee with respect to a claim that was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation or that the opposing party continued to litigate after it clearly became so. Prohibits any attorney's fee from being assessed against an Indian tribe seeking to enforce a right to an interest in land if the court determines that the land is located within sovereign Indian country. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-4904 | 106 | hr | 4904 | To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 2000-07-20 | 2000-10-02 | Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 893. | House | Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1] | HI | D | A000014 | 1 | Establishes the U.S. Office for Native Hawaiian Affairs (Office) within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior.(Sec. 5) Requires the Attorney General to designate a Department of Justice official to assist the Office in the implementation and protection of the rights of Native Hawaiians and their political, legal, and trust relationship with the United States.(Sec. 6) Establishes the Native Hawaiian Interagency Task Force to: (1) coordinate Federal policies that affect Native Hawaiians or actions by Federal agencies which may significantly or uniquely impact on Native Hawaiian resources, rights, or lands; (2) assure that each Federal agency develops a policy on consultation with Native Hawaiians; and (3) assure the participation of such agencies in the development of an annual report on Task Force activities to specified congressional committees.(Sec. 7) Establishes a process for development of a membership roll for organizing a Native Hawaiian Interim Governing Council and for election of a Native Hawaiian government. Recognizes the right of the Native Hawaiian people to adopt organic governing documents. Requires the elected officers of the government to submit such documents to the Secretary for certification.Extends Federal recognition to the government as the representative governing body of the Native Hawaiian people upon election of officers and certification by the Secretary that the documents: (1) were adopted by a majority vote of the adult members listed on the roll; (2) are consistent with Federal law and the special trust relationship between the United States and its native peoples; (3) provide for exercise of governmental authorities exercised by other governments representing U.S. native peoples; (4) provide for the protection of civil rights; (5) prevent the sale, disposition, lease, or encumbrance of assets of the government without its consent; (6) establish criteria for citizenship in the government; and (7) provide authority for the government to negotiate with Federal, State, and local … | 2025-04-07T13:47:27Z | |
| 106-s-2899 | 106 | s | 2899 | A bill to express the policy of the United States regarding the United States' relationship with Native Hawaiians, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 2000-07-20 | 2000-09-27 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 840. | Senate | Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | A000069 | 1 | Establishes the U.S. Office for Native Hawaiian Affairs (Office) within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior.(Sec. 5) Requires the Attorney General to designate a Department of Justice official to assist the Office in the implementation and protection of the rights of Native Hawaiians and their political, legal, and trust relationship with the United States.(Sec. 6) Establishes the Native Hawaiian Interagency Task Force to: (1) coordinate Federal policies that affect Native Hawaiians or actions by Federal agencies which may significantly or uniquely impact on Native Hawaiian resources, rights, or lands; (2) assure that each Federal agency develops a policy on consultation with Native Hawaiians; and (3) assure the participation of such agencies in the development of an annual report on Task Force activities to specified congressional committees.(Sec. 7) Establishes a process for development of a membership roll for organizing a Native Hawaiian Interim Governing Council and for election of a Native Hawaiian government. Recognizes the right of the Native Hawaiian people to adopt organic governing documents. Requires the elected officers of the government to submit such documents to the Secretary for certification.Extends Federal recognition to the government as the representative governing body of the Native Hawaiian people upon election of officers and certification by the Secretary that the documents: (1) were adopted by a majority vote of the adult members listed on the roll; (2) are consistent with Federal law and the special trust relationship between the United States and its native peoples; (3) provide for exercise of governmental authorities exercised by other governments representing U.S. native peoples; (4) provide for the protection of civil rights; (5) prevent the sale, disposition, lease, or encumbrance of assets of the government without its consent; (6) establish criteria for citizenship in the government; and (7) provide authority for the government to negotiate with Federal, State, and local … | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2872 | 106 | s | 2872 | Indian Arts and Crafts Enforcement Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-07-14 | 2000-11-09 | Became Public Law No: 106-497. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 4 | Indian Arts and Crafts Enforcement Act of 2000 - Amends the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to provide that in a civil action brought against a person who offers or displays for sale or sells a good in a manner that falsely suggests it is Indian produced, an Indian product, or the product of a particular Indian or Indian tribe or Indian arts and crafts organization resident within the United States, damages shall include any and all gross profits accrued by the defendant as a result of such activities. Allows such an action to be commenced by an Indian arts and crafts organization on behalf of itself, or by an Indian on behalf of himself or herself. Authorizes the Attorney General, in the case of such a civil action commenced by the Attorney General upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of an Indian who is a member of an Indian tribe or on behalf of an Indian tribe or Indian arts and crafts organization, to deduct from the amount recovered the amount for the costs of investigation awarded and to reimburse the Indian Arts and Crafts Board the amount of such costs incurred as a direct result of Board activities in the suit. Requires the Board to promulgate regulations to include specific examples in the definition of the term "Indian product." | 2025-08-20T14:21:00Z | |
| 106-hr-4858 | 106 | hr | 4858 | Native American Elders Assistance Act | Native Americans | 2000-07-13 | 2000-12-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House | Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1] | MI | D | S001045 | 31 | Native American Elders Assistance Act - Provides that any portion of the first $5,000 of income of an Indian tribe received in any calendar year by a member of the tribe who has attained 50 years of age shall not be considered income or resources in determining the eligibility of the member or the member's household for any benefit under specified means-tested public assistance programs (including Medicaid or Supplemental Security Income) or the amount or kind of any benefit provided by reason of program eligibility for so long as such portion is retained by the member. | 2025-08-20T14:21:25Z | |
| 106-hr-4842 | 106 | hr | 4842 | King Salmon Traditional Village and the Shoonaq Tribe of Kodiak Recognition Act | Native Americans | 2000-07-12 | 2000-07-20 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 0 | King Salmon Traditional Village and the Shoonaq' Tribe of Kodiak Recognition Act - Grants Federal recognition to the King Salmon Traditional Village and the Shoonaq' Tribe of Kodiak. Entitles the Village and the Tribe to the same rights, privileges, and obligations of other federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. | 2025-08-20T14:17:50Z | |
| 106-s-2792 | 106 | s | 2792 | A bill to provide that land which is owned by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana but which is not held in trust by the United States for the Tribe may be leased or transferred by the Tribe without further approval by the United States. | Native Americans | 2000-06-27 | 2000-06-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA] | LA | D | B000780 | 0 | Allows the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to lease, sell, convey, warrant, or otherwise transfer all or any part of its interest in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2795 | 106 | s | 2795 | Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act | Native Americans | 2000-06-27 | 2000-06-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5886-5887) | Senate | Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] | NV | D | R000146 | 0 | Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act - Provides for the distribution of specified funds appropriated in satisfaction of an award granted to the Western Shoshone Indians in Docket Number 326-K before the Indian Claims Commission to U.S. citizens who have at least 1/4 Western Shoshone blood and who are enrolled on a Western Shoshone Judgment Roll to be established by the Secretary of the Interior.Requires that such funds and specified funds appropriated in satisfaction of the awards granted to such Indians in Docket Numbers 326-A-1 and 326-A-3 before the U.S. Court of Claims be credited to and distributed from a Western Shoshone Educational Trust Fund to be established by the Secretary for educational and other grants and other forms of assistance to individual Western Shoshone members and to pay reasonable and necessary expenses of an Administrative Committee established by this Act to oversee the distribution of such education grants. | 2025-08-20T14:21:30Z | |
| 106-hr-4730 | 106 | hr | 4730 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act | Native Americans | 2000-06-23 | 2000-06-30 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] | GA | D | B000490 | 5 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act - Extends Federal recognition to the Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia.Makes the Tribe eligible for all Federal benefits and services furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation.Makes the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act applicable to the Tribe and its members.Directs the Secretary, if the Tribe transfers interests in land within the boundaries of the State of Georgia to the Secretary, to take such interests in land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Makes such land the Tribe's initial reservation land. Prohibits gaming on such land.Requires the Tribe to submit a membership roll.Provides for no provision of this Act to be construed to constitute an amendment, modification, or interpretation of any treaty to which the Tribe is a party nor to any right secured to the Tribe or to any other tribe by any treaty. | 2025-08-20T14:19:22Z | |
| 106-hr-4725 | 106 | hr | 4725 | To amend the Zuni Land Conservation Act of 1990 to provide for the expenditure of Zuni funds by that tribe. | Native Americans | 2000-06-22 | 2000-12-07 | House Committee on Education and the Workforce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 15, 2000. | House | Rep. Skeen, Joe [R-NM-2] | NM | R | S000463 | 0 | Title I: Expenditure of Funds by Zuni Tribe - Amends the Zuni Land Conservation Act of 1990 to: (1) establish the Zuni Indian Tribe as the trustee of the Zuni Indian Resource Development Trust Fund (currently, the trustee is the Secretary of the Interior); and (2) eliminate the cost limitation with respect to the expenditure of the corpus of the Trust Fund.Title II: Establishment of Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy - Establishes at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy to promote leadership and management training and policy analysis for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and others involved in tribal leadership and management.Directs the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation to award grants to the Center to provide startup funding for the Institute (conditioned on a 25 percent match from other sources). Requires the Foundation's Board of Trustees to approve the annual budget of the Institute.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 106-s-2771 | 106 | s | 2771 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act | Native Americans | 2000-06-22 | 2000-06-22 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5668) | Senate | Sen. Cleland, Max [D-GA] | GA | D | C001034 | 0 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act - Extends Federal recognition to the Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia.Makes the Tribe eligible for all Federal benefits and services furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation.Makes the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act applicable to the Tribe and its members.Directs the Secretary, if the Tribe transfers interests in land within the boundaries of Grady County, Carroll County, and such other counties in Georgia to the Secretary, to take such interests in land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Makes such land the Tribe's initial reservation land. Prohibits gaming on such land.Requires the Tribe to submit a membership roll. | 2025-08-20T14:17:19Z | |
| 106-hr-4703 | 106 | hr | 4703 | Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Act | Native Americans | 2000-06-20 | 2000-06-26 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1] | MI | D | S001045 | 0 | Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Act - Reaffirms Federal recognition and the rights and privileges of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (in the State of Michigan). Entitles such Band to the Federal services and benefits provided to recognized Indians. Provides for lands to be acquired and held in trust for the Band by the Secretary of the Interior. | 2025-08-20T14:19:14Z | |
| 106-hr-4643 | 106 | hr | 4643 | Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Claims Settlement Act | Native Americans | 2000-06-13 | 2000-10-03 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 923. | House | Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-44] | CA | R | B001228 | 18 | Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Claims Settlement Act - Approves, ratifies, and confirms the Agreement of Compromise and Settlement Concerning Claims to the Lands of the United States Within and on the Perimeter of the Salton Sea Drainage Reservoir Held in Trust for the Torres-Martinez Indians, as modified by the first, second, third, and fourth modifications thereto (the Settlement Agreement).Establishes in the Treasury the following three settlement trust fund accounts: (1) Torres-Martinez Settlement Trust Funds Account; (2) Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account I; and (3) Torres-Martinez Allottees Settlement Account II. Requires: (1) amounts held in the trust accounts be available to the Secretary for distribution to the Tribe and affected allottees; and (2) amounts paid to the Secretary for deposit into the accounts be allocated among and deposited in the accounts in the amounts determined by the tribal-allottee allocation provisions of the Settlement Agreement. Directs: (1) the Coachella Valley Water District and the Imperial Irrigation District to pay separate, specified amounts to the United States for the benefit of the Tribe and any affected allottees; and (2) the United States to pay a specified amount into such accounts which shall be provided from certain moneys appropriated by Congress.Directs the Secretary to convey into trust status lands purchased or acquired by the Tribe within specified primary and secondary acquisition areas. Requires all lands purchased or otherwise acquired by the Tribe and conveyed into trust status for its benefit to be considered as if they were so acquired in trust status in 1909, except as to water rights as provided in this Act and to valid rights existing at the time of acquisition. Prohibits lands in the primary acquisition area from being acquired if by majority vote the governing body of the city within whose incorporated boundaries the subject lands are situated within formally objects to the Tribe's request to convey the subject lands into trust an… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2719 | 106 | s | 2719 | Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-06-13 | 2000-11-07 | Became Public Law No: 106-464. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 3 | Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism Act of 2000 - Establishes the Office of Native American Business Development within the Department of Commerce, to be headed by a Director of Native American Business Development.Provides for: (1) financial and technical assistance and administrative services for business development and legal and regulatory compliance to Indian tribes, organizations, and businesses (eligible entities); and (2) other assistance to enhance the economies of Indian tribes.Bars assistance for activities related to gaming activities on Indian lands.Requires the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director, to carry out a Native American export and trade promotion program.Provides for technical assistance and administrative services to eligible entities for: (1) identifying and entering appropriate markets for Indian goods and services; (2) complying with foreign or domestic laws and practices with respect to financial institutions with respect to exports and imports of such goods and services; and (3) entering into financial arrangements to provide for such exporting and importing.Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to conduct a Native American tourism program to facilitate tourism demonstration projects by Indian tribes on a tribal, intertribal, or regional basis. Authorizes grants to, or other arrangements with, Indian tribes and organizations or other tribal entities to carry out such program.Requires a demonstration project to be conducted for: (1) Indians of the Four Corners area in a specified area between Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; (2) Indians of the area known as the Great Northwest; (3) the Oklahoma Indians in Oklahoma; (4) Indians of the Great Plains area; and (5) Alaska Natives in Alaska. Provides for financial and technical assistance and administrative services for feasibility studies, market analyses, participation in tourism and trade missions, and related activities to participants selected to carry out tourism devel… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2688 | 106 | s | 2688 | Native American Languages Act Amendments Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-06-07 | 2000-10-17 | Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 11 | Native American Languages Act Amendments Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Languages Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to provide funds to Native American Language Educational Organizations (Organizations), Native American Language Colleges, Indian tribal governments, organizations that demonstrate potential to become Organizations, or a consortia of such organizations, colleges, or tribal governments to establish Native American Language Nest programs (site-based education programs conducted through a Native American language) for students below the age of seven and their families.Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds to such Organizations, colleges, or governments to operate, expand, and increase Native American Language Survival Schools throughout the United States and its territories for Native American children and Native American language-speaking children. Allows a School receiving such funds to: (1) include Nest programs and other educational programs for students who are not Native American language speakers but who seek to establish fluency through instruction in such a language or to re-establish fluency as descendants of such language speakers; (2) provide instruction in more than one language and through regional programs; (3) include a program of concurrent and summer college or university education course enrollment for secondary school students enrolled in Schools, as appropriate; (4) provide special support for such languages for which there are very few or no remaining speakers; (5) develop comprehensive curricula in Native American language instruction; (6) provide teacher and staff training and personnel development and community resource development training; and (7) rent, purchase, construct, or repair educational facilities to ensure the academic achievement of School students.Requires the Secretary to provide funds to establish three specified demonstration programs that will provide assistance to Schools and Nests at: (1) Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani College of the Uni… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 106-s-2633 | 106 | s | 2633 | Graton Rancheria Restoration Act | Native Americans | 2000-05-25 | 2000-05-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] | CA | D | B000711 | 0 | Graton Rancheria Restoration Act - Restores Federal recognition and associated rights, privileges, and eligibility for Federal services and benefits to the Indians of the Graton Rancheria of California (the Tribe).Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon application by the Tribe, to accept in trust for the Tribe any real property located in Marin or Sonoma County, California, after the property is conveyed to the Secretary if there are no adverse legal claims to such property. Provides that any such property shall: (1) be part of the Tribe's reservation; (2) not be exempt from the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; and (3) be exempt from all local, State, and Federal taxation.Directs the Secretary to compile a membership roll of the Tribe not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.Provides for: (1) an Interim Tribal Council to be the Tribe's governing body; (2) an election to ratify a Tribal constitution; and (3) the election of Tribal officials under such constitution. | 2025-08-20T14:20:09Z | |
| 106-s-2665 | 106 | s | 2665 | Navajo Nation Trust Land Leasing Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-05-25 | 2000-10-31 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 954. | Senate | Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] | AZ | R | K000352 | 2 | Navajo Nation Trust Land Leasing Act of 2000 - Provides that leases by the Navajo Nation for purposes authorized under existing law, except a lease for the exploration, development, or extraction of any mineral resources, shall not require the Secretary of the Interior's approval, if the lease is executed under the tribal regulations approved by Secretary under this Act and the term of the lease does not exceed: (1) in the case of a business or agricultural lease, 25 years, with an option to renew for up to two additional terms; and (2) in the case of a lease for public, religious, educational, recreational, or residential purposes, 75 years, if such a term is provided for by the Navajo Nation through the promulgation of regulations. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to individually owned allotted land.Empowers the Secretary to approve or disapprove such regulations. Requires the Secretary to review and approve or disapprove the regulations of the Navajo Nation within 120 days of their submission. Requires that any disapproval be accompanied by written documentation that sets forth the basis for the disapproval.Requires the Navajo Nation, if it has executed a lease pursuant to such regulations, to provide the Secretary with: (1) a copy of the lease and all amendments and renewals thereto; and (2) in the case of regulations or a lease that permits payment to be made directly to the Navajo Nation, documentation of the lease payments sufficient to enable the Secretary to discharge the trust responsibility of the United States under this Act.States that the United States shall not be liable for losses sustained by any party to a lease executed pursuant to such tribal regulations, including the Navajo Nation.Permits an interested party, after exhaustion of tribal remedies, to submit a petition to the Secretary to review the Navajo Nation's compliance with any regulations approved under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, upon determining such regulations were violated, to take such action as may be necessary to rem… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2580 | 106 | s | 2580 | Indian School Construction Act | Native Americans | 2000-05-17 | 2000-10-18 | Star Print ordered on the report . | Senate | Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] | SD | D | J000177 | 8 | Indian School Construction Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot program under which eligible Indian tribes have the authority to issue tribal school modernization bonds to provide funding for the advance planning, design, and construction for the replacement of tribal schools. Requires a tribe, to be eligible to issue bonds under such program, to: (1) submit to the Secretary a plan of construction that meets specified requirements; (2) provide for inspection of the project by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (3) pledge that the facilities financed will be used primarily for elementary and secondary educational purposes for not less than the period the bond remains outstanding.Permits a tribe, in addition, to use amounts received through the issuance of a bond to: (1) enter into and make payments under contracts with architects, engineers, and construction firms to determine the needs of the tribal school and for the design and engineering of the school; (2) enter into and make payments under contracts with financial advisors, underwriters, attorneys, trustees, and other professionals who would be able to provide assistance to the tribe in issuing bonds; and (3) carry out other activities determined appropriate by the Secretary.Makes any tribal school modernization bond issued by a tribe subject to a trust agreement between the tribe and a trustee.Requires: (1) that the stated maturity of qualified tribal school modernization bonds be within 15 years from the date of issuance; and (2) upon the expiration of such period, the entire outstanding principal under the bond to become due and payable. Awards a tax credit under this Act in lieu of interest on such bonds.Requires payment of the principal portion of such bonds to be guaranteed solely by amounts deposited with each bond trustee. Authorizes the Secretary to deposit not more than $30 million into a tribal school modernization escrow account beginning in FY 2001. Requires the Secretary to use any amounts deposited to make payments to… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2526 | 106 | s | 2526 | Indian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-05-09 | 2000-09-27 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 2 | Indian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization of 2000 - Title I: Reauthorization and Revisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (the Act) to require amounts appropriated for each fiscal year to carry out Indian health human resources and development activities to be allocated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the area office of each service area under a formula developed in consultation with Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.Empowers the Director of the Indian Health Service (IHS) with the administration of Indian health professions scholarships. Requires all recipients of such scholarships awarded after December 31, 2001, to meet the active duty service obligation (service with the IHS or related service for Indians) within the service area from which the scholarship was awarded. Requires the Secretary to make funds available, through area offices, to Indian tribes and tribal organizations to assist such entities in educating Indians to serve as health professionals in Indian communities, as long as such Indians are enrolled or accepted for enrollment in a course of study in one of the health professions described by the Act. Requires a written contractual agreement from such recipients to provide service in an Indian health program in the same service area where the entity providing the scholarship is located.Entitles Indian health scholarship recipients to IHS employment or employment by a program of an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or urban Indian organization, or other HHS agencies, as available.Adds Indian tribes and tribal organizations as participants in the Community Health Representative Program under the Act, which provides for the training and use of Indians as community health representatives (currently, as community health paraprofessionals).Allows participants completing a term of education under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program to be employed within an Indian ur… | 2025-08-20T14:21:32Z | |
| 106-s-2508 | 106 | s | 2508 | Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-05-04 | 2000-12-15 | By Senator Campbell from Committee on Indian Affairs filed written report. Report No. 106-513. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 2 | Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in order to settle the outstanding claims of the Ute Indian tribes on the Animas and La Plata Rivers in Colorado and acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to: (1) complete construction of, operate, and maintain a reservoir, pumping plant, reservoir inlet conduit, and appurtenant facilities to divert and store water from the Animas River to provide a municipal and industrial water supply (the Project); and (2) deliver through the use of such components, specified municipal and industrial water allocations to the San Juan Water Commission, Animas-La Plata Conservancy District, State of Colorado, La Plata Conservancy District of New Mexico, Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, and Navajo Nation.Declares that such facilities, if constructed, constitute the Animas- La Plata Project. Prohibits the commencement of construction of any other project features authorized by the Colorado River Basin Project Act without further authorization from Congress.Provides that construction costs required to deliver each tribe's water allocation shall be nonreimbursable. Makes the nontribal repayment obligations for water allocations subject to a final cost allocation by the Secretary upon project completion. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of cost-share agreements. Requires the reallocation of water allocations for the Animas-La Plata Conservancy District and the State of Colorado to the Colorado Ute Tribes if no agreement is reached with the District or the State for such allocations.(Sec. 3) Requires the Secretary, upon request of the State Engineer of New Mexico, to assign to the New Mexico Project beneficiaries or the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission Department of the Interior interests under a specified permit in order to fulfill the New Mexico non-Navajo purposes of the Project, so long as the assignment does not affect the appli… | 2026-03-24T12:48:03Z | |
| 106-hr-4338 | 106 | hr | 4338 | Elk Valley Land Restoration Act | Native Americans | 2000-04-13 | 2000-04-25 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1] | CA | D | T000460 | 3 | Elk Valley Land Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the benefit of the Elk Valley Band of Indians of the Elk Valley Rancheria of California any real property located in Del Norte County, California, if: (1) such property is conveyed or otherwise transferred to the Secretary by or for the Tribe's benefit; and (2) at the time of such conveyance or transfer, there are no adverse legal claims to such property, including outstanding liens, mortgages, or taxes owed. Provides that any such property taken into trust shall be considered part of the Tribe's initial reservation. | 2025-08-20T14:17:03Z | |
| 106-hr-4345 | 106 | hr | 4345 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-04-13 | 2000-10-13 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 0 | Title I: Technical Amendments to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to make technical amendments to provisions regarding open season for allotments for certain Alaska Native veterans.Revises eligibility requirements to make a veteran eligible for an allotment if the veteran served at least six months between January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971 (currently, June 2, 1971), and meets other existing requirements.Changes provisions regarding the authority of a personal representative of a decedent to select an allotment to authorize such representative or a special administrator appointed in an Alaska State court to select an allotment if the decedent was a veteran who served in Southeast Asia at any time during August 5, 1964, and December 31, 1971, and during such period: (1) was killed in action; (2) was wounded in action and died as a consequence of the wound; or (3) died while a prisoner of war. (Current law allows personal representatives to select such allotments if, during January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971, one of such events occurred with respect to the decedent.)Subjects a beneficiary's interest in a settlement trust and the distributions thereon to creditor action only to the extent that Settlement Common Stock and related distributions are subject to such action under the Act.Title II: National Leadership Symposium For American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Youth - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Education for the Washington Workshops Foundation for administration of a national leadership symposium for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian youth on the traditions and values of American democracy. | 2025-08-20T14:18:26Z | |
| 106-s-2351 | 106 | s | 2351 | Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act | Native Americans | 2000-04-04 | 2000-06-14 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 1 | Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act - Requires the St. George (Utah) Water Reuse Project to consist of water treatment facilities, a pipeline, and associated pumping and delivery facilities to divert water from the Water Reclamation Facility in St. George and transport such water for delivery and use by St. George and the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. Makes 2,000 acre-feet of water available annually to the Band.Sets forth funding provisions and describes project construction, permitting, operation, and maintenance responsibilities of St. George.(Sec. 6) Requires the Santa Clara Project to: (1) consist of a pressurized pipeline from the existing Gunlock Reservoir across the Shivwits Reservation, along with main lateral pipelines; (2) pool and deliver the water rights of the parties as set forth in the Santa Clara Agreement; and (3) deliver to the Band 1,900 acre-feet annually.Sets forth funding provisions and describes project construction, permitting, operation, and maintenance responsibilities of the Washington County Water Conservancy District.(Sec. 7) Settles, ratifies, and confirms the Band's water rights.Grants the Band the right in perpetuity to: (1) the water quantities described in this Act as set forth in the Santa Clara Project and St. George Water Reuse Project Agreements (Project Agreements) (with first priority to the water generated by the St. George Project); and (2) 100 acre-feet annually from groundwater on the Shivwits Reservation.Provides that the Shivwits Water Right shall not be subject to loss by abandonment or forfeiture for nonuse. Authorize the Band to use the Water Right for: (1) any purpose anywhere on the Reservation; and (2) any beneficial use off the Reservation.(Sec. 8) Approves, ratifies, and confirms the Project Agreements and the Settlement Agreement among the United States, Utah, the Band, and other specified parties, except to the extent they conflict with this Act. Requires the benefits realized by the Band under th… | 2025-08-20T14:17:45Z | |
| 106-hr-4148 | 106 | hr | 4148 | Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-03-30 | 2000-10-19 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 1 | Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Indian Self- Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide that an Indian tribe or tribal organization administering a contract or compact shall be entitled to recover its full indirect costs associated with any other Federal funding received by such tribe or tribal organization (other than funds paid under this Act), consistent with the tribe's or tribal organization's indirect cost rate agreement with its cognizant Federal agency. Entitles such tribes or tribal organizations that employ an indirect cost pool that includes both funds paid under this Act and other Federal funds to use or expend all Federal funding received by such tribe or tribal organization in such pool in the same manner as permitted in provisions under the Act relating to allowable uses of funds without approval of the Secretary of any Federal agency providing funds to such tribe or tribal organization.Makes, within the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services, tribal contract support cost entitlements the responsibility of the Office of Tribal Programs, subject to the tribe's or tribal organization's indirect cost rate agreement with its cognizant Federal agency.Provides that contract support costs that are eligible for the purposes of receiving funding under the Act include direct contract support costs associated with all Federal employees employed in connection with the program, service, function, or activity that is the subject of the contract, including all Federal employees paid with funds generated from third-party collections.Requires the Secretary of the Interior to pay preaward and startup costs without regard to the year in which such costs were incurred, including such costs identified by the Indian Health Service in a September 1999 report entitled "FY 1999 IHS CSC Shortfall Data." | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-s-2282 | 106 | s | 2282 | Native American Agricultural Research, Development and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-03-23 | 2000-09-06 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 3 | Native American Agricultural Research, Development and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Native American Agricultural Research, Development and Export Office.Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Director of such Office, to ensure the coordination of all programs that provide assistance to Native American communities within seven specified mission areas of the Department of Agriculture and to ensure the coordination of, or carry out, activities to: (1) promote Indian agricultural programs; (2) facilitate water and waste programs, housing, utility and other infrastructure development with respect to Native American communities; (3) provide assistance to Indian tribal college programs; (4) implement rural economic development programs for Native American communities; and (5) promote food and nutrition services for such communities. Requires the Director to provide: (1) financial and technical assistance and administrative services to assist eligible entities in identifying and taking advantage of business development opportunities and complying with laws and regulatory practices; and (2) such other assistance necessary for the development of business opportunities to enhance Indian tribes' economies.Requires the Director to establish and implement a Native American export and trade promotion program and, in carrying out such program, to ensure the coordination of: (1) Federal programs and services designed to develop Indian tribes' economies and stimulate the demand for Indian goods and services that are available from eligible entities; and (2) Federal programs that are designed to provide technical or financial assistance to eligible entities and any activities related to the development of markets for Indian goods and services. Requires the Director to provide technical assistance and administrative services to assist eligible entities in: (1) identifying and entering markets for Indian goods and services; (2) complying with foreign or domesti… | 2025-08-20T14:19:28Z | |
| 106-s-2283 | 106 | s | 2283 | Indian Tribal Surface Transportation Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-03-23 | 2000-09-11 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 796. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 2 | Indian Tribal Surface Transportation Act of 2000 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from distributing the obligation authority for Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs for FY 2001 through 2003 with respect to amounts authorized for Indian reservation roads under the Federal Lands Highways Program.Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a demonstration project under which all funds made available for Indian reservation roads and highway bridges located on such roads shall be made available to an Indian tribal government, upon its request, for contracts and agreements for planning, research, engineering, and construction of any highway, road, bridge, parkway, or transit facility that provides access to or is located within the reservation or community of the Indian tribe in accordance with the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA).Requires the selection of 12 geographically diverse Indian tribes each fiscal year from an applicant pool described below. Permits two or more tribes to form a consortium to be considered as a single tribe for purposes of becoming part of such pool.Provides for a participating Indian tribe to receive funding equivalent to the funding that it would otherwise receive pursuant to the funding formula established under TEA-21, plus an additional percentage of funds withheld during the fiscal year for the road program management costs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.Requires such applicant pool to consist of each Indian tribe or consortium that: (1) has successfully completed a planning phase that includes legal and budgetary research and internal tribal government and organization preparation; (2) has requested participation in such demonstration project through the adoption of a resolution or other official action by the tribal governing body; and (3) has, during the three-fiscal year period immediately preceding the fiscal year for which participation … | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2102 | 106 | s | 2102 | Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act | Native Americans | 2000-02-24 | 2000-11-01 | Became Public Law No: 106-423. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 2 | Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act - Mandates that all U.S. rights and interests to specified California and Nevada lands and water be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of California and Nevada. Makes water rights granted by this Act junior to existing Federal and State water rights and prohibits them from being subject to relinquishment, forfeiture, or abandonment. Provides development and other limitations with respect to such lands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to purchase additional lands and appurtenant water rights in trust for the Tribe's use. Recognizes certain special use areas, including the mesquite use area, a buffer area, and the Timbisha Shoshone natural and cultural preservation area. Outlines authorized administrative activities.Directs the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Tribe to enter into consultations and develop protocols to review planned development in Death Valley National Park (the site of the Tribe's ancestral homeland). Authorizes cooperative agreements for providing training on the interpretation, management, protection, and preservation of the natural and cultural resources of the Tribe's special use areas.Requires the Secretary and the Tribe to develop mutually agreed upon standards for a water monitoring system to assess the effects of water use at Scotty's Junction and Death Valley Junction on certain tribal trust lands described in this Act and on the Park.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-2052 | 106 | s | 2052 | Indian Tribal Development Consolidated Funding Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 2000-02-10 | 2000-09-27 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-793. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 1 | Indian Tribal Development Consolidated Funding Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to select up to 24 Indian tribes per fiscal year to participate in projects to foster community, economic, and business development in Native American communities through grants or other financial assistance provided through Federal programs or projects.Directs the President to promulgate regulations to carry out this Act and to ensure it is applied and implemented by all executive agencies.Outlines procedures for processing requests for joint financing (financing by at least two Federal assistance programs). Authorizes the establishment of a joint assistance fund to ensure that amounts received from more than one Federal program or appropriation are more effectively administered.Provides for the financial management, accountability, and audits of the use of financial assistance provided.Authorizes the provision of technical assistance and personnel training under a project approved for joint financing.Authorizes the head of an executive agency to enter into an agreement with a State to extend the benefits of this Act to a project that involves assistance from at least one executive agency and at least one tribal agency or instrumentality.Requires an implementation report from the President to Congress. | 2025-08-20T14:19:56Z | |
| 106-hconres-237 | 106 | hconres | 237 | Expressing the sense of the Congress that a portion of the budget surplus should be used to fulfill moral and legal responsibilities of the United States by ensuring proper payment and management of all federally held tribal trust fund accounts and individual Indian money accounts. | Native Americans | 1999-11-18 | 1999-11-19 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2480) | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 11 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that a portion of the budget surplus should be used to fulfill the moral and legal responsibilities of the United States by ensuring proper payment and management of all federally held tribal trust fund accounts and individual Indian money accounts. | 2025-01-02T17:07:35Z | |
| 106-s-1967 | 106 | s | 1967 | A bill to make technical corrections to the status of certain land held in trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, to take certain land into trust for that Band, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 1999-11-18 | 2000-06-29 | Became Public Law No: 106-228. | Senate | Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] | MS | R | C000567 | 1 | Provides that: (1) all land taken in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on or after December 23, 1944, shall be part of the Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation; (2) all land held in fee by such Band located within the boundaries of the State of Mississippi is hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the benefit of the Band; and (3) land made part of the Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation after December 23, 1944, shall not be considered to be part of the initial reservation of the tribe upon which gaming is permitted under specified provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z | |
| 106-hr-3397 | 106 | hr | 3397 | Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-11-16 | 1999-12-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 30 | Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (the Act) to require funding authorized for programs under title I (Indian health, human resources, and development) of the Act to be allocated by service area under a formula developed in consultation with Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.Empowers the Director of the Indian Health Service (IHS) with the administration of Indian health professions scholarships. Requires all recipients of such scholarships awarded after 2001 to meet the active duty service obligation (service with the IHS or related service for Indians) within the service area from which the scholarship was awarded. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make funds available to Indian tribes and tribal organizations to assist such entities in educating Indians to serve as health professionals in Indian communities, as long as such Indians are enrolled or accepted for enrollment in a course of study in one of the health professions contemplated by the Act. Requires a written contractual agreement from such recipients to provide service in an Indian health program in the same service area where the entity providing the scholarship is located. Provides Indian health scholarship recipients a preference for IHS employment or authorizes employment by a program of an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or urban Indian organization, or other HHS agencies, as available.Adds Indian tribes and tribal organizations as participants in the Community Health Representative Program under the Act, which provides for the training and use of Indians as community health representatives (currently, as community health paraprofessionals).Allows participants completing a term of education under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program to be employed within an Indian urban organization.Discontinues the annual authorization of appropriations for the Indian Health Scholarship and Loan Repayment Recovery Fund.Au… | 2026-03-23T12:17:56Z | |
| 106-hr-3412 | 106 | hr | 3412 | Charlotte Beach Land Claims Settlement Act | Native Americans | 1999-11-16 | 1999-11-16 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1] | MI | D | S001045 | 0 | Charlotte Beach Land Claims Settlement Act - Requires that, upon relinquishment by the Bay Mills Indian Community of all claims to the Charlotte Beach Lands (certain Michigan lands that are located within the Community's traditional homelands) and dismissal of specified suits by the Community concerning title to such lands: (1) the Secretary of the Interior shall take certain Alternative Lands into trust for the benefit of such Community as part of the settlement of the Community's claim to the Charlotte Beach Lands; and (2) the Alternative Lands shall become part of the Community's reservation.Directs the Secretary to take certain other Michigan lands into trust for the benefit of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan as settlement of that Tribe's claims to the Charlotte Beach Lands.Extinguishes all claims of the Community and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe for Charlotte Beach Lands upon the transfer of the Alternative Lands. | 2025-08-20T14:19:29Z | |
| 106-s-1929 | 106 | s | 1929 | Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-11-16 | 2000-10-23 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 1 | Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act Reauthorization of 2000 - Amends the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (the Act) to find that the unmet needs and serious health disparities that adversely affect Native Hawaiians include cancer, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, hypertension, strokes, infectious disease and illness, dental health, life expectancy, maternal and child health, mental health (including alcohol and drug abuse), and health professions education and training.Expresses as the intent of Congress: (1) the establishment and implementation of health care programs which substantially reduce or eliminate the over-representation of Native Hawaiians among those suffering from chronic and acute disease and illness and addressing Native Hawaiian health needs; and (2) that the United States raise the health status of Native Hawaiians by the year 2010 to at least the levels set forth within Healthy People 2010 or successor standards and to incorporate within health programs certain activities identified by Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on the progress made in achieving such national policy.Authorizes the Secretary to contract with Papa Ola Lokahi (an organization of public agencies and private organizations focused on improving the health status of Native Hawaiians) to support community-based initiatives that are reflective of holistic approaches to health. Authorizes Papa Ola Lokahi and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (Office) to enter into a memorandum of understanding to accomplish such objectives. Requires a report from Papa Ola Lokahi to Congress on the impact of current Federal and State health care financing mechanisms and policies on the health and well-being of Native Hawaiians. Authorizes appropriations. Requires Papa Ola Lokahi to serve as a clearinghouse for the collection and maintenance of data associated with the health status of Native Hawaiians. Requires the Secretary to provide Papa Ola Lokahi and the Off… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-3291 | 106 | hr | 3291 | Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act | Native Americans | 1999-11-10 | 2000-08-18 | Became Public Law No: 106-263. | House | Rep. Hansen, James V. [R-UT-1] | UT | R | H000172 | 0 | Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act - Requires the St. George (Utah) Water Reuse Project to consist of water treatment facilities, a pipeline, and associated pumping and delivery facilities to divert water from the Water Reclamation Facility in St. George and transport such water for delivery to and use by St. George and the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. Makes 2,000 acre-feet of water available annually to the Band.Sets forth funding provisions and describes project construction, permitting, operation, and maintenance responsibilities of St. George.(Sec. 6) Requires the Santa Clara Project to: (1) consist of a pressurized pipeline from the existing Gunlock Reservoir across the Shivwits Reservation, along with main lateral pipelines; (2) pool and deliver the water rights of the parties as set forth in the Santa Clara Project Agreement; and (3) deliver to the Band 1,900 acre-feet annually.Sets forth funding provisions and describes project construction, permitting, operation, and maintenance responsibilities of the Washington County Water Conservancy District.(Sec. 7) Grants the Band the right in perpetuity to divert, pump, impound, use, and reuse a total of 4,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Virgin River and Santa Clara River systems to be taken as follows: (1) the water quantities described in this Act as set forth in the Santa Clara Project and St. George Water Reuse Project Agreements (Project Agreements) (with first priority to the reuse water provided from the St. George Project); and (2) 100 acre-feet from groundwater on the Shivwits Reservation.Settles, ratifies, and confirms the Band's water rights.Permits the Band to use water from the springs and runoff on the Reservation. Declares that the amount used from such sources will be reported annually to the Utah State Engineer by the Band and requires the amount to be counted against the annual Water Right.Provides that the Shivwits Water Right shall not be subject to loss by abandonment, fo… | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-3333 | 106 | hr | 3333 | Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-11-10 | 2000-03-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. | House | Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3] | NM | D | U000039 | 1 | Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 1999 - Title I: Training and Technical Assistance, Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Grants - Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Office of Tribal Justice of the Department of Justice, to award grants to: (1) national and regional membership organizations and associations whose membership consists of judicial system personnel within tribal justice systems, to provide training and technical assistance for the development, enrichment, and enhancement of such systems; and (2) non-profit entities that provide legal assistance services for Indian tribes, members of Indian tribes, or tribal justice systems pursuant to federal poverty guidelines, for the provision of civil or criminal legal assistance to members of tribes and tribal justice systems. Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Indian Tribal Courts - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and provide technical assistance to Indian tribes to enable such tribes to carry out programs supporting the development, enhancement, and continuing operation of tribal justice systems and the development and implementation of: (1) tribal codes and sentencing guidelines; (2) inter-tribal courts and appellate systems; (3) tribal probation services, diversion programs, and alternative sentencing provisions; (4) tribal juvenile services and multi-disciplinary protocols for child physical and sexual abuse; and (5) traditional tribal judicial practices, traditional tribal justice systems, and traditional methods of dispute resolution.Authorizes appropriations.Amends the Indian Tribal Justice Act to extend through FY 2007 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the Office of Tribal Justice Support; (2) base support funding for tribal justice systems; (3) administration of the Office; and (4) the administration of tribal judicial conferences. | 2025-08-20T14:19:37Z | |
| 106-s-1913 | 106 | s | 1913 | Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-11-10 | 1999-11-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] | AZ | R | M000303 | 1 | Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1999 - Permits the Ak-Chin Indian Community to lease, enter into options to lease, renew options to lease, extend the initial terms of or renew leases (for the same or a lesser term as the initial term of the lease) exchange, or temporarily dispose of water to which it is entitled for the beneficial use in the areas initially designated as the Pinal, Phoenix, and Tucson Active Management Areas pursuant to the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980. Limits to 100 years the initial term of any such lease.Ratifies and approves the option and lease agreement among the Community, the United States, and Del Webb Corporation, dated as of December 14, 1996, and the Amendment Number One thereto, dated as of January 7, 1999. Directs the Secretary to execute Amendment Number One, and the restated agreement as provided in such amendment, within 60 days after the enactment date of this Act. | 2025-08-20T14:17:00Z | |
| 106-hr-3262 | 106 | hr | 3262 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act | Native Americans | 1999-11-09 | 1999-11-09 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] | GA | D | B000490 | 1 | Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia Recognition Act - Extends Federal recognition to the Lower Muscogee-Creek Indian Tribe of Georgia.Makes the Tribe eligible for all Federal benefits and services furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation.Makes the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act applicable to the Tribe and its members.Directs the Secretary, if the Tribe transfers interests in land within the boundaries of Grady County, Carroll County, and such other counties in Georgia to the Secretary, to take such interests in land into trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Makes such land the Tribe's initial reservation land.Requires the Tribe to submit a membership roll. | 2025-08-20T14:17:19Z | |
| 106-s-1893 | 106 | s | 1893 | Gaming Clarification Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-11-09 | 1999-11-09 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] | MO | R | B000611 | 0 | Gaming Clarification Act of 1999 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to make class III gaming activities lawful on Indian trust land in the State of Missouri only when they are conducted in accordance with any geographic limitation placed by the Missouri State Constitution. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from taking land into trust for an Indian tribe in Missouri for class II or class III gaming or approving such gaming on lands taken into trust in the State when the Missouri State Constitution authorizes the State's general assembly to permit lotteries, gift enterprises, and games of chance to be conducted only upon the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers on excursion gambling boats and floating facilities. | 2025-08-20T14:21:18Z | |
| 106-s-1857 | 106 | s | 1857 | Bisti PRLA Dispute Resolution Act | Native Americans | 1999-11-04 | 1999-11-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 0 | Bisti PRLA Dispute Resolution Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon the relinquishment by certain holders of coal preference right lease applications, to issue to each such holder a Certificate of Bidding Rights that constitutes the fair market value of the relinquished rights. Provides a fair market value determination method.Directs the Secretary: (1) no later than July 15, 2000, to verify the selection of current Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico made by the Navajo Indian Nation pursuant to a resettlement plan for the Navajo Tribe; and (2) within 30 days thereafter, to issue patents to the Navajo Nation to the relinquished coal preference rights. | 2025-08-20T14:18:41Z | |
| 106-s-1840 | 106 | s | 1840 | California Indian Land Transfer Act | Native Americans | 1999-11-02 | 2000-10-02 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 895. | Senate | Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] | CA | D | B000711 | 0 | California Indian Land Transfer Act - Declares U.S. rights and interests in specified lands to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe, the Fort Independence Community of Paiute Indians, the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians, the Cuyapaipe Band of Mission Indians, the Manzanita Band of Mission Indians, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and the Fort Bidwell Community of Paiute Indians. Requires proceeds from rents and royalties from such lands to be available for use by the appropriate tribe, band, or group. Terminates grazing preferences two years after enactment of this Act. Requires such lands to be added to the existing reservation of the appropriate tribe, band, or group. | 2025-08-20T14:21:00Z | |
| 106-s-1838 | 106 | s | 1838 | A bill to provide that certain income derived from an agreement between the Bios Forte Band of Chippewa Indians and the State of Minnesota shall not be considered income for purposes of Federal assistance eligibility. | Native Americans | 1999-11-01 | 1999-11-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | Prohibits any of the funds paid by the State of Minnesota to the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians and the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians pursuant to the agreement of such Bands to voluntarily restrict tribal rights to hunt and fish in territory ceded under the Treaty of September 30, 1854, from being considered as income or resources, or otherwise being used as the basis for denying or reducing the financial assistance or other benefits to which a household or member of such Bands would be entitled to under the Social Security Act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, or any Federal or federally assisted program. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1839 | 106 | s | 1839 | A bill to provide that land which is owned by the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota but which is not held in trust by the United States for the Community may be leased or transferred by the Community without further approval by the United States. | Native Americans | 1999-11-01 | 1999-11-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 0 | Permits the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota, without further approval by the United States, to lease or transfer all or any part of the Community's interest in any real property that is not held: (1) within the borders of the Lower Sioux Reservation; or (2) in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Community. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-3181 | 106 | hr | 3181 | To permit the leasing of oil and gas rights on certain lands held in trust for the Navajo Nation or alloted to a member of the Navajo Nation, in any case in which there is consent from a specified percentage interest in the parcel of land under consideration for lease. | Native Americans | 1999-10-28 | 1999-11-04 | Committee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3] | NM | D | U000039 | 2 | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to approve any oil or gas lease or agreement that affects individually owned Navajo Indian allotted land if: (1) the owners of no less than the specified applicable percentage of the undivided interest in the Navajo Indian allotted land that is covered by the oil or gas lease or agreement consent in writing; and (2) the Secretary determines that approving the lease or agreement is in the best interest of the owners. Specifies the applicable percentage as: (1) 100 percent if there are ten or fewer owners; (2) 80 percent if there are ten to 50 owners; and (3) 60 percent if there are more than 50 owners.Authorizes the Secretary to give written consent to such an oil or gas lease or agreement on behalf of an individual Indian owner if: (1) the owner is deceased and the heirs to the interest have not been determined; or (2) the heirs have been determined but one or more cannot be located.Provides that: (1) an oil or gas lease or agreement approved under this Act shall be binding on all owners of interest in the Navajo Indian allotted land and all parties to the lease or agreement to the same extent as if all of the owners had consented to the lease or agreement; and (2) an approved lease or agreement shall apply to any portion of the undivided interest in allotted lands held by an Indian tribe even though the tribe did not consent.Provides for the distribution of proceeds derived from the lease or agreement to all owners of the undivided interest in the covered land in accordance with the portion of the undivided interest owned. | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-3112 | 106 | hr | 3112 | Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-10-20 | 2000-10-25 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 584. | House | Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3] | CO | R | M000477 | 0 | Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in order to settle the outstanding claims of the Ute Indian tribes on the Animas and La Plata Rivers in Colorado and acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to: (1) complete construction of, operate, and maintain a reservoir, pumping plant, reservoir inlet conduit, and appurtenant facilities to divert and store water from the Animas River to provide a municipal and industrial water supply (the Project); and (2) deliver through the use of such components, specified municipal and industrial water allocations to the San Juan Water Commission, Animas-La Plata Conservancy District, State of Colorado, La Plata Conservancy District of New Mexico, Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, and Navajo Nation.Declares that such facilities, if constructed, constitute the Animas- La Plata Project. Prohibits the commencement of construction of any other project features authorized by the Colorado River Basin Project Act without further authorization from Congress.Provides that construction costs required to deliver each tribe's water allocation shall be nonreimbursable. Makes the nontribal repayment obligations for water allocations subject to a final cost allocation by the Secretary upon project completion. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of cost-share agreements. Requires the reallocation of water allocations for the Animas-La Plata Conservancy District and the State of Colorado to the Colorado Ute Tribes if no agreement is reached with the District or the State for such allocations.(Sec. 3) Requires the Secretary, upon request of the State Engineer of New Mexico, to assign to the New Mexico Project beneficiaries or the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission any portion of Department of the Interior interests under a specified permit in order to fulfill the New Mexico purposes of the Project, so long as the assignment does not affect the a… | 2025-04-07T13:47:32Z | |
| 106-hr-3090 | 106 | hr | 3090 | To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to restore certain lands to the Elim Native Corporation, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 1999-10-18 | 2000-05-02 | Became Public Law No: 106-194. | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 0 | Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to withdraw certain Alaska lands from disposition under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, for a two-year period, for selection by the Elim Native Corporation. Authorizes such Corporation to select 50,000 acres of such lands. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey the surface and subsurface estate in the lands selected. Subjects such transfer to valid existing rights, covenants, terms, and conditions. Constitutes the Corporation's selection and final conveyance of such lands as full satisfaction of its land entitlement. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to convey selections of hot or medicinal springs (subject to specified covenants and conditions). Reserves certain U.S. rights with respect to the conveyance to the Corporation. Directs the Secretary and the Corporation to enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement such conveyance. Directs the Bureau of Land Management to reserve appropriate easements to the United States, and authorizes the Bureau to reserve easements for the Iditarod National Historic Trail.Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient.Redefines a Settlement Trust as any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders, Natives, and descendants of Natives (current law limits to stockholders). | 2026-03-24T12:48:03Z | |
| 106-hr-3080 | 106 | hr | 3080 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-10-14 | 2000-12-14 | Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 106-1028, Part I. | House | Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-9] | MI | D | K000172 | 6 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish within the District of Columbia as a charitable and nonprofit federally chartered corporation the American Indian Education Foundation. Authorizes the Foundation to encourage, accept, and administer private gifts for the benefit or support of educational opportunities of American Indians who attend schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | 2025-08-20T14:19:22Z | |
| 106-s-1702 | 106 | s | 1702 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-10-06 | 1999-10-14 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-414. | Senate | Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK] | AK | R | M001085 | 1 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient. (Sec. 3) Includes any corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, or affiliate with which a Native Corporation or its affiliate engages in one or more commercial transactions that exceed $20,000 in a calendar year within the entities excluded from the definition of "employer" for purposes of application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Sec. 4) Includes as a Settlement Trust any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders (current law), Natives, and descendants of Natives. (Sec. 5) Includes within lands authorized to be allotted to Alaska Native veterans: (1) land in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska which the eligible person used and occupied; (2) land that was not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which prior to December 18, 1971, became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved during the time the eligible person used and occupied the land; or (3) land that was not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved after the above date, and remains so. Makes eligible for such allotments Alaska veterans who served during the period between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975 (currently, the period between January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971) and served on active duty for at least six months. Outlines allotment approval procedures, including the right to protest a proposed allotment. (Sec. 7) Withdraws for two years from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws certain lands in the vicinity of Elim, Alaska. Authorizes the Elim Native Corporation to selec… | 2026-03-24T12:48:03Z | |
| 106-hr-3013 | 106 | hr | 3013 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-10-05 | 1999-10-18 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2124-2125) | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 0 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient. (Sec. 3) Includes any corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, or affiliate with which a Native Corporation or its affiliate engages in one or more commercial transactions that exceed $20,000 in a calendar year within the entities excluded from the definition of "employer" for purposes of application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Sec. 4) Includes as a Settlement Trust any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders (current law), Natives, and descendants of Natives. (Sec. 5) Includes within lands authorized to be allotted to Alaska Native veterans lands: (1) in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska which the eligible person used and occupied; (2) that were not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which prior to December 18, 1971, became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved during the time the eligible person used and occupied the land; or (3) that were not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved after the above date, and remain so. Makes eligible for such allotments Alaska veterans who served during the period between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975 (currently, the period between January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971) and served on active duty for at least six months. Outlines allotment approval procedures, including the right to protest a proposed allotment. (Sec. 7) Withdraws for two years from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws certain lands in the vicinity of Elim, Alaska. Authorizes the Elim Native Corporation to select and re… | 2025-08-20T14:20:58Z | |
| 106-hr-2992 | 106 | hr | 2992 | Tribal Sovereignty Protection Act | Native Americans | 1999-10-01 | 1999-10-01 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-6] | AZ | R | H000413 | 9 | Tribal Sovereignty Protection Act - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to prohibit negotiated Tribal-State compacts from including, or being conditioned upon, any provision relating to labor terms or conditions for employees of tribally owned businesses located on Indian lands. | 2025-08-20T14:18:55Z | |
| 106-s-1658 | 106 | s | 1658 | A bill to authorize the construction of a Reconciliation Place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 1999-09-29 | 2000-09-27 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 1 | Title I: Reconciliation Center - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish in Stanley County, South Dakota, a reconciliation center known as Reconciliation Place to: (1) enhance knowledge and understanding of the history of Native Americans; (2) interpret the encounters between Lewis and Clark and the Sioux Nation; (3) house the Sioux Nation Tribal Supreme Court (Court); (4) house the Native American Economic Development Council (Council); and (5) house the National Native American Mediation Training Center (Center). Directs such Secretary to award a grant to the Wakpa Sica Historical Society of Fort Pierre, South Dakota, for construction of Reconciliation Place.(Sec. 102) Directs the Attorney General to provide technical and financial assistance to ensure the development and operation of the Court and the Center. Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Native American Economic Development Council - Establishes the Native American Economic Development Council to: (1) accept gifts and use them as a source of matching funds necessary for Federal assistance; (2) provide members of Indian tribes with skills, resources, and grants and loans for establishing and operating businesses; (3) provide scholarships to Indian students pursuing an education in a business or a business-related subject; and (4) provide technical assistance to Indian tribes in obtaining Federal assistance. Establishes a Council Board of Directors.(Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to: (1) provide necessary administrative services to the Council for five years after the enactment of this Act; and (2) accept volunteers to serve on the Council and the Board.(Sec. 206) Subjects the Council to Federal audit requirements. Directs the Council to report annually to Congress on its proceedings and activities. Provides for district court relief for certain Council acts or failures to act.(Sec. 207) Releases the United States from all Council debts, actions, or omissions.(Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to a… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-2875 | 106 | hr | 2875 | To amend the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration Act to provide for tribal representation on the Klamath Fishery Management Council, to clarify allocation of the annual tribal catch, and for other purposes. | Native Americans | 1999-09-15 | 2000-05-04 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2] | CA | R | H000528 | 0 | Amends the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resources Restoration Act to add a representative of the Karuk Indian Tribe to the Klamath Fishery Management Council.Requires the Karuk Tribe's annual catch yielded through the tribal fishery on the Klamath River to be part of the tribe's in-river tribal allocation. | 2025-01-02T17:12:20Z | |
| 106-s-1586 | 106 | s | 1586 | Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-09-15 | 2000-11-07 | Became Public Law No: 106-462. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 1 | Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 - Title I: Indian Land Consolidation - Amends the Indian Land Consolidation Act to revise certain Indian land consolidation provisions. Adds to the definition of "Indian" for purposes of such Act any person who has been found to meet such definition under a provision of Federal law if consistent with the purposes of the Act. Sets forth provisions concerning, among other things: (1) the acquisition of fractional interests in Indian trust or restricted lands; (2) the required approval of the Secretary of the Interior for trust or restricted land sales, except with respect to an Indian tribe that has a Secretary-approved land consolidation plan; (3) the required approval by the Secretary within a specified time frame of any adopted Indian tribal probate code governing the descent and distribution of trust or restricted lands (outlines approval procedures, reserves life estates for non-Indian devisees who would otherwise be precluded from inheriting by reason of the adopted code, and authorizes payments by tribes to such devisees to acquire interests); (4) the descent and distribution of interests in trust or restricted lands, including fractional interests; (5) intestate succession and descent to an Indian tribe of remainder interests in trust or restricted lands when the decedent has no Indian heirs of the first or second degree subject to acquisition of such interests by Indian co-owners; (6) creation of joint tenancy with the right to survivorship if interests in the same parcel of land are devised to more than one person; (7) the descent and distribution of trust or restricted lands located outside of a reservation and authority of the official authorized to adjudicate probate to approve agreements between a decedent's heirs and devisees to consolidate interest in such lands; (8) notification by the Secretary of Indian tribes and owners of trust or restricted lands of the amendments made by this Act with respect to testate disposition, intestate descent, and estat… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1587 | 106 | s | 1587 | A bill to amend the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 to establish within the Department of the Interior an Office of Special Trustee for Data Cleanup and Internal Control. | Native Americans | 1999-09-15 | 1999-09-22 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-218. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Amends the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 to establish within the Department of the Interior the Office of Special Trustee for Data Cleanup and Internal Control. Requires the Special Trustee to be appointed by the Department's Inspector General, to report directly to the Secretary of the Interior, and to: (1) oversee specified subprojects identified in the Draft Trust Management Improvement Project Subproject Task Updates, dated April 1999; (2) oversee the expenditure of funds for the subprojects, including the approval or modification of contracts; and (3) make employment decisions for each of the positions funded for such projects.Requires that the Special Trustee ensure that activities are carried out under this Act through contracts entered into with private entities or through the retention of the temporary services of trust management specialists.Declares that the Special Trustee shall continue to be responsible for overseeing such activities if they are altered or amended as a result of any modifications to the Department's Trust Management Improvement Project, High Level Implementation Plan (dated July 28, 1998). | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1588 | 106 | s | 1588 | Native American Census Participation Enhancement Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-09-15 | 1999-09-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Native American Census Participation Enhancement Act of 1999 - Title I: Grants to Tribes and Organizations - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide for grants to be made to Indian tribes and tribal organizations, consistent with the purposes of this Act, in order to improve Native American participation in the 2000 census.(Sec. 3) Requires: (1) grant applications to include at least a statement of objectives, and a description of the programs and activities, for which the grant is sought; and (2) grant applicants to agree to make available non-Federal contributions in an amount equal to 50 percent of the Federal funds provided under the grant.(Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary to allocate the amounts appropriated to carry out this Act equitably and in a manner that best achieves the purposes of this Act.(Sec. 5) Allows a grant to be used only to: (1) train volunteers to assist individuals residing on Indian lands to complete and return census questionnaires; (2) educate Native Americans and the public about the importance of participating in the 2000 census and the confidentiality that is accorded to information collected; (3) recruit candidates to apply for census office and field enumerator positions; (4) sponsor community events to promote the 2000 census; (5) produce community-tailored promotional materials; or (6) rent space to provide any such training.Title II: Recruitment of Temporary Employees - Prohibits the earning or receipt of compensation for service performed by an individual in a temporary census position (a temporary position within the Bureau of the Census established for purposes relating to the 2000 decennial census of population) from having the effect of causing: (1) such individual or any other individual to become ineligible for any benefits provided under any Federal program or any State, tribal, or local program financed with Federal funds; or (2) a reduction in the amount of any such benefits for which such individual or any other individual would otherwise be eligible. Makes such … | 2025-08-20T14:20:33Z | |
| 106-s-1589 | 106 | s | 1589 | American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act Amendments | Native Americans | 1999-09-15 | 1999-09-22 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-218. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 1 | American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act Amendments - Amends the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (the Act) to: (1) provide a two-year term of office for the Special Trustee for American Indians; and (2) establish the Indian Trust Fund Reform Commission. Requires the Commission to prepare for submission to the Secretary of the Interior, specified congressional committees, and the Special Trustee's advisory board a recommended reinvention strategy for all trust management business cycles that ensures the proper and efficient discharge of the trust responsibility of the Federal Government to Indian tribes and individual Indians in compliance with the Act. Outlines strategy adoption procedures and requirements. Requires the Commission to: (1) recommend to Congress the Federal agency that should be responsible for regulating such Federal fund management activities; and (2) submit recommendations for legislation to implement the strategy adopted by the Commission. | 2025-08-20T14:17:43Z | |
| 106-hr-2820 | 106 | hr | 2820 | To provide for the ownership and operation of the irrigation works on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona, by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. | Native Americans | 1999-09-09 | 2000-10-04 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-6] | AZ | R | H000413 | 1 | Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community all rights and interests of the United States in and to the irrigation works on the Community's reservation which were formerly operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Grants the Community full ownership and operating authority on the date of conveyance of the works.Requires the operation of the works consistent with specified standards, including those for: (1) equitable distribution of water; and (2) a due process system for determination of any request for distribution of water.Cancels on the conveyance date any charges for construction of the works that were deferred.Provides that, upon such date, the works shall no longer be considered a BIA irrigation project and will not be eligible for Federal benefits based solely on the fact that the works were formerly such a project. | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-2803 | 106 | hr | 2803 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-08-05 | 1999-10-05 | For Further Action See H.R.3013. | House | Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] | AK | R | Y000033 | 0 | Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient. (Sec. 3) Includes any corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, or affiliate with which a Native Corporation or its affiliate engages in one or more commercial transactions that exceed $20,000 in a calendar year within the entities excluded from the definition of "employer" for purposes of application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Sec. 4) Includes as a Settlement Trust any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders (current law), Natives, and descendants of Natives. (Sec. 5) Includes within lands authorized to be allotted to Alaska Native veterans: (1) lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska which the eligible person used and occupied; and (2) land that was not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which later became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved during the time the eligible person used and occupied the land. Makes eligible for such allotments Alaska veterans who served during the period between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975 (currently, the period between January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971) and served on active duty for at least six months. Outlines allotment approval procedures, including the right to protest a proposed allotment. (Sec. 7) Allows allotment selections made after December 18, 1974, to be in partial sections, but requires each selection to be not less than 160 contiguous acres. (Sec. 8) Withdraws for two years from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws certain lands in the vicinity of Elim, Alaska. Authorizes the Elim Native Corporation to select and receive title to 50,000 acres within the withdrawn lands to repla… | 2025-08-20T14:20:30Z | |
| 106-s-1507 | 106 | s | 1507 | Native American Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program Consolidation Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-08-05 | 2000-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 1 | Native American Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program Consolidation Act of 2000 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), in cooperation with the Secretaries of Labor, Interior, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, and the Attorney General, as appropriate, upon receiving an acceptable plan from an Indian tribe, to authorize such tribe to coordinate its federally funded alcohol and substance abuse and mental health programs by integrating the program services involved into a single, comprehensive program and reducing administrative costs through the consolidation of administrative functions. Sets forth eligible program criteria, plan requirements, and provisions governing plan review, waivers of statutory requirements for plan implementation, and plan approval. Requires such officials to enter into an interdepartmental memorandum of agreement providing for the implementation of authorized plans. Establishes the Indian Health Service as the lead agency with specified responsibilities, including the development of a single reporting format for plans and projects and development of a single system of Federal oversight for the plan.Prohibits any reduction of Federal funds available to a participating tribe as a result of this Act. Provides for interagency fund transfers to carry out this Act.Makes any State with an alcohol and substance abuse or mental health program targeted to Indian tribes eligible to receive, at no cost, such Federal personnel assignments as the Secretary may deem appropriate to help ensure the success of such program. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1508 | 106 | s | 1508 | Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-08-05 | 2000-12-21 | Became Public Law No: 106-559. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 2000 - Title I: Training and Technical Assistance, Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Grants - Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Office of Tribal Justice of the Department of Justice, to award grants to: (1) national or regional membership organizations and associations whose membership consists of judicial system personnel within tribal justice systems which submit an application to the Attorney General to provide training and technical assistance for the development, enrichment, and enhancement of such systems; and (2) non-profit entities that provide legal assistance services for Indian tribes, members of Indian tribes, or tribal justice systems pursuant to Federal poverty guidelines, for the provision of civil or criminal legal assistance to members of tribes and tribal justice systems. Authorizes appropriations.Prohibits Federal agencies from offsetting funds made available for Indian tribal court membership organizations or Indian legal services organizations against other funds otherwise available for use in connection with technical or legal assistance to tribal justice systems or members.Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Indian Tribal Courts - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and provide technical assistance to enable Indian tribes to carry out programs to support: (1) the development, enhancement, and continuing operation of tribal justice systems; and (2) the development and implementation of tribal codes and sentencing guidelines; inter-tribal courts and appellate systems; tribal probation services, diversion programs, and alternative sentencing provisions; tribal juvenile services and multi-disciplinary protocols for child physical and sexual abuse; and traditional tribal judicial practices, tribal justice systems, and methods of dispute resolution. Authorizes appropriations.Amends the Indian Tribal Justice Act to extend the authorization of appropriations relating to tribal justice systems through FY 2… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1509 | 106 | s | 1509 | Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act Amendments of 2000 | Native Americans | 1999-08-05 | 2000-10-24 | Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill. | Senate | Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] | CO | R | C000077 | 0 | Title I: Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Demonstration Act Amendments - Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act Amendments of 2000 - Amends the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992 to: (1) include programs for assisting Indian youth and adults to succeed in the workforce, encouraging self-sufficiency, familiarizing them with the world of work, facilitating the creation of job opportunities, and any services related to these activities (replacing current law requirements of job training, tribal work experience, employment opportunities, or skill development, or any program designed for the enhancement of job opportunities or employment training); (2) require the Secretary of the Interior to reconsider disapproval of any statutory waiver requested by a tribe; and (3) authorize the use of a percentage of funds made available under the Act for the creation of employment opportunities.Permits a regional consortium of Alaska Native villages or regional or village corporations to carry out a project under a plan that meets the Act's requirements through a resolution adopted by the governing body of that consortium or corporation. Provides that such authorization shall not prohibit such a village or corporation from withdrawing from participation in any portion of a program.(Sec. 104) Requires the Secretaries of the Interior, Health and Human Services, and Labor, and the tribes and organizations participating in the integration initiative under the Act to report to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committee on Resources on the opportunities for expanding the integration of human resource development and economic development programs, and the feasibility of establishing Joint Funding Agreements to authorize tribes to access and coordinate funds and resources from various agencies for purposes of human resources development, physical infrastructure development, and economic development assistance in general. Requires such… | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1525 | 106 | s | 1525 | Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act | Native Americans | 1999-08-05 | 1999-08-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] | WA | D | M001111 | 1 | Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund Account.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to deposit into the Account a sum equal to 39.4 percent of the lump sum paid to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, pursuant to the Confederated Tribes Act, adjusted for inflation, as payment and satisfaction of the Spokane Tribe's claim for use of its lands for generation of hydropower from 1940 through November 2, 1994, the enactment date of such Act.Requires the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, on September 30 of the next six fiscal years, to pay into the Fund deposits equal to 20 percent of 39.4 of the sum authorized to be paid to the Confederated Tribes through the end of the fiscal year during which this Act is enacted, adjusted for inflation, to maintain the purchasing power the Spokane Tribe would have had if annual payments had been made to it on the date annual payments commenced and were subsequently made to the Confederated Tribes under such Act.Requires, on September 1 of each fiscal year, annual payments to be made by the Power Administration directly to the Spokane Tribe in an amount that is equal to 39.4 percent of the annual payment authorized to be paid to the Confederated Tribes under such Act.Requires the Secretary to transfer settlement funds to the Spokane Business Council within 60 days after receiving written notice of adoption of a resolution by the Council requesting the transfer. Requires that: (1) 25 percent of such funds be reserved by the Council and used for general discretionary purposes of general benefit to all members of the Spokane Tribe; and (2) 75 percent of such funds be used for the resource development program, credit program, scholarship program, and reserve, investment, and economic development programs.Declares that the approval of the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior for any payment, di… | 2025-08-20T14:20:00Z | |
| 106-hr-2671 | 106 | hr | 2671 | Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Development Trust Fund Act | Native Americans | 1999-08-02 | 2000-07-17 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416. | House | Rep. Barrett, Bill [R-NE-3] | NE | R | B000179 | 0 | Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Development Trust Fund Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Yankton Sioux Tribe Development Trust Fund and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Development Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) deposit a specified amount into each Fund; (2) invest such amounts and deposit resulting interest in the Funds; and (3) withdraw the aggregate amount of interest deposited into the Funds each fiscal year and transfer that amount to the Secretary of the Interior to use for making payments to the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe, as requested by each Tribe pursuant to tribal resolution, for carrying out projects and programs under each Tribe's Tribal Plan. Permits each Tribe to enter into an agreement under which it pledges future payments as security for a loan or other financial transaction, but only in connection with the purchase of land or other capital assets, and only for an amount less than 40 percent of any payment for that year.Directs the tribal council of each Tribe to prepare a Tribal Plan for using payments for carrying out projects and programs to promote: (1) economic development; (2) infrastructure development; or (3) the educational, health, recreational, and social welfare objectives of the Tribe and its members.Prohibits any payment made to either Tribe pursuant to this Act from: (1) resulting in the reduction or denial of any service or program to which the Tribe or any member of the Tribe is otherwise entitled because of federally recognized status; (2) being subject to any Federal or State income tax; or (3) affecting Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin power rates.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:19:06Z | |
| 106-hr-2661 | 106 | hr | 2661 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-07-30 | 1999-08-06 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-9] | MI | D | K000172 | 6 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 - Establishes and grants a Federal charter to the American Indian Education Foundation. | 2025-08-20T14:18:20Z | |
| 106-hr-2664 | 106 | hr | 2664 | Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act | Native Americans | 1999-07-30 | 1999-07-30 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5] | WA | R | N000051 | 1 | Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund Account.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to deposit into the Account a sum equal to 39.4 percent of the lump sum paid to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, pursuant to the Confederated Tribes Act, adjusted for inflation, as payment and satisfaction of the Spokane Tribe's claim for use of its lands for generation of hydropower from 1940 through November 2, 1994, the enactment date of such Act.Requires the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, on September 30 of the next six fiscal years, to pay into the Fund deposits equal to 20 percent of 39.4 of the sum authorized to be paid to the Confederated Tribes through the end of the fiscal year during which this Act is enacted, adjusted for inflation, to maintain the purchasing power the Spokane Tribe would have had if annual payments had been made to it on the date annual payments commenced and were subsequently made to the Confederated Tribes under such Act.Requires, on September 1 of each fiscal year, annual payments to be made by the Power Administration directly to the Spokane Tribe in an amount that is equal to 39.4 percent of the annual payment authorized to be paid to the Confederated Tribes under such Act.Requires the Secretary to transfer settlement funds to the Spokane Business Council within 60 days after receiving written notice of adoption of a resolution by the Council requesting the transfer. Requires that: (1) 25 percent of such funds be reserved by the Council and used for general discretionary purposes of general benefit to all members of the Spokane Tribe; and (2) 75 percent of such funds be used for the resource development program, credit program, scholarship program, and reserve, investment, and economic development programs.Declares that the approval of the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior for any payment, di… | 2025-08-20T14:18:59Z | |
| 106-hr-2638 | 106 | hr | 2638 | Gaming Clarification Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-07-29 | 1999-08-04 | Executive Comment Requested from Interior. | House | Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7] | MO | R | B000575 | 10 | Gaming Clarification Act of 1999 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to make class III gaming activities lawful on Indian trust land in the State of Missouri only when they are conducted in accordance with any geographic limitation placed by the Missouri State Constitution. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from taking land into trust for an Indian tribe in Missouri for class II or class III gaming or approving such gaming on lands taken into trust in the State when the Missouri State Constitution authorizes the State's general assembly to permit lotteries, gift enterprises, and games of chance to be conducted only upon the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers on excursion gambling boats and floating facilities. | 2025-08-20T14:19:22Z | |
| 106-hr-2643 | 106 | hr | 2643 | To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to provide for appropriate study and repatriation of remains for which a cultural affiliation is not readily ascertainable. | Native Americans | 1999-07-29 | 1999-07-29 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4] | WA | R | H000329 | 0 | Amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to repeal a provision regarding the granting of ownership or control of Native American cultural items which are excavated or discovered on Federal or tribal lands after November 16, 1990, and for which a cultural affiliation is not readily ascertainable. Directs that such items excavated or discovered on Federal lands: (1) be reasonably recorded according to generally accepted scientific standards; (2) remain under the control of the agency having primary management authority for the land on which the item was excavated or discovered until 90 days after the publication in the Federal Register of a notice setting out a general description of the item, its estimated age, and the general area of discovery; and (3) be subject to the following study provisions. Revises study and recording provisions to provide that, in cases of human remains and associated funerary objects for which no lineal descendants have been identified and in cases of other cultural items, if the cultural affiliation of a cultural item has: (1) not been established, studies may be conducted in an attempt to establish such an affiliation or to obtain scientific, historical, or cultural information; and (2) been established with an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization, studies of such item may be conducted if needed for the completion of a specific study, the outcome of which is reasonably expected to provide significant new information concerning the history or prehistory of the United States. Requires the Federal agency or museum with custody of the cultural item to: (1) return an item to the affiliated tribe or organization, upon request, within 90 days after the study is completed; and (2) provide a report of the results to such tribe or organization within 180 days after the study is completed. Provides that if a study of a specified cultural item is requested, the Federal agency or museum with custody of such item must make such item reasonably available for such st… | 2025-01-02T17:11:59Z | |
| 106-hr-2647 | 106 | hr | 2647 | Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-07-29 | 2000-10-10 | Became Public Law No: 106-285. | House | Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-4] | AZ | R | S000275 | 0 | Ak-Chin Water Use Amendments Act of 1999 - Permits the Ak-Chin Indian Community to lease, enter into options to lease, renew options to lease, extend the initial terms of or renew leases (for the same or a lesser term as the initial term of the lease), exchange, or temporarily dispose of water to which it is entitled for the beneficial use in the areas initially designated as the Pinal, Phoenix, and Tucson Active Management Areas pursuant to the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980; and (2) limit to 100 years the initial term of any such lease.Ratifies and approves the option and lease agreement among the Community, the United States, and Del Webb Corporation, dated as of December 14, 1996, and the Amendment Number One thereto, dated as of January 7, 1999. Directs the Secretary to execute Amendment Number One, and the restated agreement as provided in such amendment, within 60 days after the enactment date of this Act. | 2025-08-20T14:17:50Z | |
| 106-hr-2484 | 106 | hr | 2484 | To provide that land which is owned by the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota but which is not held in trust by the United States for the Community may be leased or transferred by the Community without further approval by the United States. | Native Americans | 1999-07-12 | 2000-06-21 | Became Public Law No: 106-217. | House | Rep. Minge, David [D-MN-2] | MN | D | M000795 | 0 | Allows the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota, without further approval by the United States, to lease or transfer all or any part of the Community's interest in any real property that is not held in trust by the United States for the Community. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1315 | 106 | s | 1315 | A bill to permit the leasing of oil and gas rights on certain lands held in trust for the Navajo Nation or allotted to a member of the Navajo Nation, in any case in which there is consent from a specified percentage interest in the parcel of land under consideration for lease. | Native Americans | 1999-07-01 | 2000-03-22 | Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | Senate | Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] | NM | D | B000468 | 4 | Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to approve any oil or gas lease or agreement that affects individually owned Navajo Indian allotted land if: (1) the owners of no less than the specified applicable percentage of the undivided interest in the Navajo Indian allotted land that is covered by the oil or gas lease or agreement consent in writing; and (2) the Secretary determines that approving the lease or agreement is in the best interest of the owners. Specifies the applicable percentage as: (1) 100 percent if there are ten or fewer owners; (2) 80 percent if there are ten to 50 owners; and (3) 60 percent if there are more than 50 owners. Authorizes the Secretary to give written consent to such an oil or gas lease or agreement on behalf of an individual Indian owner if: (1) the owner is deceased and the heirs to the interest have not been determined; or (2) the heirs have been determined but one or more cannot be located. Provides that: (1) an oil or gas lease or agreement approved under this Act shall be binding on all owners of interest in the Navajo Indian allotted land and all parties to the lease or agreement to the same extent as if all of the owners had consented to the lease or agreement; and (2) an approved lease or agreement shall apply to any portion of the undivided interest in allotted lands held by an Indian tribe even though the tribe did not consent. Provides for the distribution of proceeds derived from the lease or agreement to all owners of the undivided interest in the covered land in accordance with the portion of the undivided interest owned. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-s-1290 | 106 | s | 1290 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-06-28 | 1999-11-12 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | Senate | Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] | HI | D | I000025 | 8 | American Indian Education Foundation Act of 1999 - Establishes and grants a Federal charter to the American Indian Education Foundation. | 2025-08-20T14:19:28Z | |
| 106-s-1213 | 106 | s | 1213 | Indian Child Welfare Act Amendments of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-06-10 | 1999-06-10 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. | Senate | Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] | AZ | R | M000303 | 2 | Indian Child Welfare Act Amendments of 1999 - Amends the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 to provide for retention by an Indian tribe of exclusive jurisdiction over child custody proceedings involving Indian children that are or become wards of a tribal court of that Indian tribe. Revises requirements, with respect to Indian children, regarding: (1) the voluntary termination of parental rights; and (2) the withdrawal of a consent to such voluntary termination or to adoption. Requires a party seeking the voluntary placement of an Indian child or the voluntary termination of parental rights to provide written notice to the Indian child's tribe. Sets forth the requirements for such a written notice. Permits an Indian tribe to intervene only if a child's tribe has sent a written objection to the adoptive placement to the court or to the party seeking the voluntary placement of the Indian child, but permits the child's Indian tribe to intervene in any case in which the Indian tribe did not receive a written notice. Modifies requirements regarding consideration of the personal preference of an Indian child or parent with respect to adoptive placements, foster care, and preadoptive placements. Prescribes, in any case in which a court determines that it is appropriate to consider the preference of a parent or Indian child, that preference may be considered to constitute good cause. Provides criminal sanctions for fraudulent representation with respect to any proceeding involving an Indian child. | 2025-08-20T14:20:59Z | |
| 106-s-1148 | 106 | s | 1148 | Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act | Native Americans | 1999-05-27 | 2000-08-25 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 744. | Senate | Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] | SD | D | D000064 | 3 | Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Yankton Sioux Tribe Development Trust Fund and the Santee Sioux Tribe Development Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) deposit specified amounts into each Fund; (2) invest such amounts and deposit resulting interest in the Funds; and (3) withdraw the aggregate amount of interest deposited into the Funds each fiscal year (beginning with the 11th fiscal year after this Act's enactment date) and transfer that amount to the Secretary of the Interior to use for making payments to the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe, as requested by each Tribe pursuant to tribal resolution, for carrying out projects and programs under each Tribe's Tribal Plan.Directs the tribal council of each Tribe to prepare a Tribal Plan for using payments for carrying out projects and programs to promote: (1) economic development; (2) infrastructure development; or (3) the educational, health, recreational, and social welfare objectives of the Tribe and its members. Provides for audits of Tribal Plans.Prohibits any payment made to either Tribe pursuant to this Act from: (1) resulting in the reduction or denial of any service or program to which the Tribe or any member of the Tribe is otherwise entitled because of federally recognized status; (2) being subject to any Federal or State income tax; or (3) affecting Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin power rates.Authorizes appropriations.Extinguishes all monetary claims that the Tribes have or may have against the United States for loss of value or use of land resulting from the Fort Randall and Gavins Point projects of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program upon deposit of amounts into the Funds. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-1944 | 106 | hr | 1944 | Gila River Indian Community-Phelps Dodge Corporation Water Rights Settlement Act of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-05-26 | 1999-06-04 | Referred to Department of the Interior for comments. | House | Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-4] | AZ | R | S000275 | 0 | Gila River Indian Community-Phelps Dodge Corporation Water Rights Settlement Act of 1999 - Ratifies, approves, and confirms the May 4, 1998, settlement agreement among Phelps Dodge Corporation, the Gila River Indian Community, and the United States (agreement). Directs the Secretary of the Interior or his lawful designee (Secretary) to execute, and perform all of the Secretary's duties under, the agreement. (Sec. 6) Directs that: (1) the Secretary take all actions specified in the agreement necessary on the Secretary's part to obtain title to Blue Ridge Reservoir from Phelps Dodge; and (2) title to the Reservoir be held by the Secretary in trust for the benefit of the Navajo Nation. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary, simultaneously with the transfer of the Reservoir to the United States, to: (1) reallocate to the Community 12,000 acre-feet of Central Arizona Project (CAP) water; (2) amend the Community's CAP Contract to include the reallocated water; and (3) extend the Community's CAP Contract to 100 years, plus such additional term as may result from the exercise of the option provided for in, or other extension of, the lease referred to in the agreement. Sets forth provisions regarding nonreimbursability of water service and other capital charges and operation, maintenance, and replacement charges to the Community. (Sec. 8) Ratifies, approves, and confirms a lease referred to in the agreement. Makes such lease ineffective as to the United States and directs the Secretary not to execute it, until environmental compliance has been completed and the exchange has been approved. Allows the Secretary and the Community to renew or extend the lease at the end of the initial or any extended term as the Community, the Secretary, and Phelps Dodge may agree, with a limitation. (Sec. 9) Authorizes the Secretary and the Community to enter into an exchange agreement under which CAP water leased to Phelps Dodge by the Community is delivered by Phelps Dodge to the Community in return for the right to divert water from the Gila R… | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z | |
| 106-hr-1953 | 106 | hr | 1953 | To authorize leases for terms not to exceed 99 years on land held in trust for the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians of the Guidiville Indian Rancheria. | Native Americans | 1999-05-26 | 2000-06-21 | Became Public Law No: 106-216. | House | Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-44] | CA | R | B001228 | 1 | Authorizes the leasing of lands held in trust for the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians of the Guidiville Indian Rancheria, and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation by their Indian owners, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for public, religious, educational, residential, or business purposes for terms not exceeding 99 years.Grants the request of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Wisconsin to surrender the charter of incorporation issued to the Community on May 21, 1938, pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act, thereby revoking the charter. | 2025-06-20T19:33:16Z | |
| 106-hr-1811 | 106 | hr | 1811 | Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments of 1999 | Native Americans | 1999-05-13 | 1999-05-18 | Referred to Department of the Interior for comments. | House | Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-2] | AZ | D | P000099 | 1 | Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments of 1999 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to revise specified definitions and define "compact" and "management contract." Revises provisions regarding powers of the National Indian Gaming Commission and its Chairman. Repeals the Secretary of the Interior's interim gaming regulatory authority. Authorizes tribes to request a State to enter into class III gaming compact negotiations. Sets forth related provisions, including a State's right not to assume tribal gaming responsibilities. Eliminates the requirement of gubernatorial concurrence with regard to gaming on after-acquired lands. Grants Federal tax-exempt status to tribally owned or chartered gaming operations. Provides for the lawfulness of specified class III gaming activities. | 2025-08-20T14:21:36Z | |
| 106-hr-1814 | 106 | hr | 1814 | To provide incentives for Indian tribes to collect and pay lawfully imposed State sales taxes on goods sold on tribal lands and to provide for penalties against Indian tribes that do not collect and pay such State sales taxes. | Native Americans | 1999-05-13 | 2000-07-19 | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House | Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] | IN | D | V000108 | 46 | Provides that, among Indian tribes competing for Federal grants, priority shall be given to Indian tribes that certify, through a process established by the Secretary of the Interior, that retail establishments operating on trust lands within a tribes's jurisdiction are collecting and paying all qualified State retail taxes. Sets forth procedures and penalties (including removal of tribal lands from trust status) regarding failure of Indians or Indian tribes to pay qualified State retail taxes on goods sold to nontribal members on tribal lands. | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-hr-1780 | 106 | hr | 1780 | To provide for the settlement of claims of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. | Native Americans | 1999-05-12 | 1999-05-12 | Referred to the House Committee on Resources. | House | Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8] | WI | R | G000545 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin a specified amount for damages sustained by the Tribe by reason of the: (1) enactment and implementation of an Act to provide for a per capita distribution of Menominee tribal funds and authorize the withdrawal of the Menominee Tribe from Federal jurisdiction; and (2) mismanagement by the United States of the Tribe's assets held in trust by the United States before April 30, 1961. Provides that payment of such amount shall be in full satisfaction of any claims that the Tribe may have against the United States with respect to such damages. States that such payment shall: (1) have the status of a judgment of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for the purposes of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act; (2) be made in accordance with that Act's requirements on the condition that after payment of attorney's fees and litigation expenses, of the remaining amount, not less than 30 percent shall be distributed on a per capita basis and not more than 70 percent shall be set aside and programmed to serve tribal needs; and (3) not be used to purchase land for the purpose of having such land taken into trust for the Tribe's benefit. | 2025-04-07T13:47:14Z | |
| 106-s-1021 | 106 | s | 1021 | A bill to provide for the settlement of claims of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. | Native Americans | 1999-05-12 | 1999-05-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] | WI | D | K000305 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin a specified amount for damages sustained by the Tribe by reason of the: (1) enactment and implementation of an Act to provide for a per capita distribution of Menominee tribal funds and authorize the withdrawal of the Menominee Tribe from Federal jurisdiction; and (2) mismanagement by the United States of the Tribe's assets held in trust by the United States before April 30, 1961. Provides that payment of such amount shall be in full satisfaction of any claims that the Tribe may have against the United States with respect to such damages. States that such payment shall: (1) have the status of a judgment of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for the purposes of the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act; and (2) be made in accordance with that Act's requirements on the condition that after payment of attorneys fees and litigation expenses, of the remaining amount, not less than 30 percent shall be distributed on a per capita basis, and not more than 70 percent shall be set aside and programmed to serve tribal needs. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z |
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