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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 685
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-396
TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FEDERAL
LAND IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA FOR THE BEN-
EFIT OF THE LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE
NOVEMBER 28, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2599]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2599) to provide for the transfer of certain Federal land in the
State of Minnesota for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of
Ojibwe, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
amendments and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE
The bill, S. 2599, intends to transfer 11,760 acres of federal land
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the U.S. De-
partment of the Interior (DOI) for the benefit of the Leech Lake
Band of Ojibwe Indian tribe (Tribe or Tribal).
BACKGROUND
The bill, S. 2599, would restore Tribal land that was lost during
the termination era when many of its members were illegally dis-
possessed of their land via secretarial transfers, a transaction
where the DOI approved the sale or transfer of tribal land and/or
individually owned Indian allotments without the consent of the
tribe or the individual Indian allottees. The Tribe maintains that
this practice by the DOI resulted in the Tribe having an insuffi-
cient land base to meet the current needs of its membership.1 The
Tribe is seeking the return of the described land in S. 2599 to help
restore its land base, to protect tribal sacred sites, and to build
'The Tribe has the largest population out of the State of Minnesota tribes (about 10,660 as
of the 2010 census), the Tribe has the smallest amount of land available for its use, as much
of its reservation is submerged under the area's lakes.
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