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Calendar No. 221
114TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 114-141
THOMASINA E. JORDAN INDIAN TRIBES OF VIRGINIA
FEDERAL RECOGNITION ACT OF 2015
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany S. 465]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 465) to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian
Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the
Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Mona-
can Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 465 is to provide federal recognition to six
tribes in the Commonwealth of Virginia-the Chickahominy Indian
Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the
Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Mona-
can Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe, and make ap-
plicable to these groups and their members all laws that are gen-
erally applicable to American Indians and federally recognized In-
dian tribes.
NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Although there is a Federal regulatory process by which an In-
dian group may obtain Federal recognition (described below), the
ability of a group to meet the regulatory requirements is highly de-
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