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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-670
INDIAN BUFFALO MANAGEMENT ACT
DECEMBER 18, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 5153]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5153) to assist Tribal governments in the management of
buffalo and buffalo habitat and for the reestablishment of buffalo
on Indian lands, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Indian Buffalo Management Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.-Congress finds that-
(1) buffalo sustained a majority of Indian Tribes in North America for many
centuries, before buffalo were nearly exterminated by non-Indian hunters in the
mid-1800s;
(2) the historical, cultural, and spiritual connection between buffalo and In-
dian Tribes has not diminished over time;
(3) Indian Tribes have long desired the reestablishment of buffalo throughout
Indian country for cultural, spiritual, and subsistence purposes; and
(4) the successful restoration of buffalo allows an Indian Tribe to benefit
from-
(A) the reintroduction of buffalo into the diets of the members of the In-
dian Tribe;
(B) the rekindling of the spiritual and cultural relationship between buf-
falo and the Indian Tribe; and
(C) the use of buffalo for economic development, in the case of an Indian
Tribe that chooses to use buffalo for economic development.
(b) PURPOSES.-The purposes of this Act are-
(1) to fulfill the government-to-government relationship between Tribal gov-
ernments and the United States in the management of buffalo and buffalo habi-
tat;
(2) to promote and develop the capacity of Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza-
tions to manage buffalo and buffalo habitat;
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