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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-163
PALA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS LAND TRANSFER ACT
OF 2021
NOVEMBER 1, 2021.-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. 1975]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1975) to take certain land located in San Diego County,
California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission In-
dians, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1975 is to take certain land located in San
Diego County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala
Band of Mission Indians.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Pala Band of Mission Indians is located in northern San
Diego County on a reservation home to 918 enrolled members. The
rancheria encompasses over 12,000 acres, including 4,000 acres of
forests, 6 acres of wetlands, 8 acres of lake, and over 38 miles of
streams. Members of the Pala Band belong to the Cupeno and
Luiseno tribes, who were forced together by Spanish Franciscan
missionaries during the 1800s.
The Pala Band recently purchased property that includes the re-
maining portion of Gregory Mountain that is not on the existing
Pala Reservation and other sacred and culturally significant sites
in Gregory Canyon. The land was purchased to protect and pre-
serve Gregory Mountain (Chokla), Medicine Rock, and other sites
considered sacred by Luiseno Tribes.
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