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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 52
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 117-18
TO AMEND THE GRAND RONDE RESERVATION ACT, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
APRIL 28, 2021.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 559]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 559) to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this bill is to reinstitute the ability of the Confed-
erated Tribes of Grand Ronde (Tribe) to pursue land claims in the
State of Oregon following the termination of that right pursuant to
the 1994 amendment to the Grand Ronde Reservation Act.
BACKGROUND
The Tribe's reservation was originally established by treaties en-
tered into and ratified between 1853 and 1855, and by the Execu-
tive Order of June 30, 1857. In 1954, Congress terminated the
Tribe through Public Law 83-588. Congress later reversed the ter-
mination by enactment of the Grand Ronde Restoration Act (Public
Law 98-165) in 1983. The Grand Ronde Restoration Act restored
the Tribe's federal recognition by reinstating its Indian Reorganiza-
tion Act charter and requiring Congressional legislation to reestab-
lish a reservation.
Following the development of a reservation plan, Congress
passed the Grand Ronde Reservation Act in 1988 for the Tribe to
establish 9,811 acres as reservation land. After the Grand Ronde
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