HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxafpy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED
U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-197
WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE MEMORIAL AND
SACRED SITE ACT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3371]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3371) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete
all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee
status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 3371 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to complete all action necessary for certain land to be held in re-
stricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3371 would place approximately 40 acres of fee land located
within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, into restricted fee status
for the Oglala Sioux tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. Re-
stricted fee land contains the same restrictions against alienation
and taxation as land held in trust, but title is not held by the fed-
eral government. The land to be placed into restricted fee status is
to be held as a Lakota sacred site and memorial. The memorial
honors the more than 350 Indian men, women and children killed
in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, which occurred on and
39-006](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrecreports/crptxafpy0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)