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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 244
116TH CONGRESS }T REPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-130
TO REPEAL THE ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO CONFER JURISDICTION ON
THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA OVER OFFENSES COMMITTED BY OR
AGAINST INDIANS ON THE DEVILS LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION
OCTOBER 16, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2159]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2159) to repeal the Act entitled An Act to confer jurisdiction
on the State of North Dakota over offenses committed by or against
Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2159 is to repeal a federal law that grants
criminal jurisdiction to the State of North Dakota over offenses
committed by or against Indians on the Devils Lake Reservation,
currently known as the Spirit Lake Reservation.1
SUMMARY OF THE BILL
The bill, S. 2159, repeals the Act entitled An Act to confer juris-
diction on the State of North Dakota over offenses committed by or
against Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation in its en-
tirety.
In 1944, the Devils Lake Sioux Tribal Council passed a resolu-
tion to continue state jurisdiction over misdemeanor crimes occur-
ring within their reservation boundaries. This was due to a lack of
I In May 1995, by general referendum, the Tribe made a constitutional revision to change its
name from the Devils Lake Sioux to the Spirit Lake Tribe. The name refers to the location
of the reservation, which was first established as the Devils Lake settlement and later changed
to reservation, as named in the bill. The tribal members have always called themselves Mni
Wakan Oyate (Spirit Lake People).
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