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U.S. OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 33
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 116-3
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
MARCH 7, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 199]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 199) to provide for the transfer of certain Federal land in the
State of Minnesota for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of
Ojibwe, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The bill, S. 199, transfers 11,760 acres of Federal land from the
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the Department of the Inte-
rior (DOI) for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indian
Tribe (Tribe).
BACKGROUND
The bill, S. 199, would restore Tribal land that was lost when
many of its members were illegally dispossessed of their land via
secretarial transfers during the 1950s. Secretarial transfers were
a transaction where the DOI approved the sale or transfer of Tribal
land and/or individually owned Indian allotments without the con-
sent of the Tribe or the individual Indian allottees. The Tribe
maintains that this practice by the DOI resulted in the Tribe hav-
ing an insufficient land base to meet the current needs of its mem-
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