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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 175
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 117-45
DURBIN FEELING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES ACT
OF 2021
DECEMBER 2, 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. 1402]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 1402) to amend the Native American Languages Act to ensure
the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1402 is to ensure the survival and continuing
vitality of Native American languages by amending the Native
American Languages Act (NALA).
BACKGROUND & NEED FOR LEGISLATION
With enactment of NALA, Congress affirmed the U.S. responsi-
bility to act together with Native American communities to ensure
the survival of their languages.1 Congress has since undertaken
substantial work to uphold the principles set out in NALA and sup-
port Native American community-led initiatives to maintain and
revitalize these communities' languages.2
1 NALA § 102(1), 25 U.S.C. § 2901(1).
2For example, Congress enacted the Native American Languages Act of 1992, Pub. L. No.
102-524 (1992); Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act of 2006, Pub. L.
No. 109-394 (2006); Native American and Alaska Native language immersion schools and pro-
gram, [20 U.S.C. § 74531 (2015); and, Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs
Continued
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