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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-166
OLD PASCUA COMMUNITY LAND ACQUISITION ACT
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. 4881]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4881) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take into
trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain land in Pima
County, Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4881 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to take into trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain
land in Pima County, Arizona.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is a federally recognized Tribe located
in Southern Arizona with approximately 22,000 enrolled members.
Before establishing the Tribe's reservation in 1978, forty acres of
land near Tucson, Arizona, were donated to establish a Yaqui Na-
tion. A portion of this land is now known as Old Pascua.
The Old Pascua area has remained a sacred ceremonial site since
1921 and is home to the oldest formally established Yaqui commu-
nity in Tucson, Arizona. With the exclusion of this community, the
Tribe and many tribal members faced challenges like encroachment
from the growing city of Tucson and concerns related to regula-
tions, taxation, tribal ownership of sacred, cultural, traditional, and
religious grounds, and access to sites of symbolic importance for
gathering ceremonial materials.
In May 2021, the Secretary of the Interior approved an amended
and restated gaming compact entered into by the State of Arizona
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