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Calendar No. 272
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-129
KEWEENAW BAY INDIAN COMMUNITY LAND CLAIM
SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2023
DECEMBER 12, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 195]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 195) to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the
United States inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian
Reservation that were guaranteed to the Community under a trea-
ty signed in 1854, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 195 would acknowledge the uncompensated taking by the fed-
eral government of Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
lands, provide compensation for the taking of those lands, and ex-
tinguish all KBIC claims to those lands in exchange for the pro-
vided compensation.
BACKGROUND
KBIC is a federally recognized Indian Tribe with a reservation
primarily comprised of two non-contiguous tracts on either side of
the Keweenaw Bay, in Baraga County in the Upper Peninsula,
Michigan. The Tribe is the successor in interest to two treaties
with the United States guaranteeing rights of use and occupancy
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