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Calendar No. 489
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-211
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE EQUITABLE SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN IN-
DIAN LAND DISPUTES REGARDING LAND IN ILLINOIS, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2796]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2796), to provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian
land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment, and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2796 is to authorize the United States Court
of Federal Claims to consider treaty-based land claims of the
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and to extinguish any future claims to
those lands by the Tribe and its members.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is a federally-recognized Indian
Tribe whose ancestral homelands are located in present-day Indi-
ana, Illinois, and Ohio.' In 1805, the Miami Tribe, and several of
its component bands, signed the Treaty of Grouseland with the
United States. The Treaty relinquished title to the Tribe's lands in
southeastern Illinois and reserved lands for the Tribe in the Wa-
bash River watershed in east-central Illinois.2 Under terms of the
'In 1846, the United States forcibly removed the Miami Tribe to present-day Kansas; it was
removed again by force in 1867 to present-day Oklahoma, where the Tribe's seat of government
is currently located.
27 Stat. 91 (1805). See Letter to Senator Brian Schatz, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs, from Douglas G. Lankford, Chief, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (January 16, 2024)
(on file with the Committee).
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