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Calendar No. 273
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-130
PUYALLUP TRIBE OF INDIANS LAND INTO TRUST
CONFIRMATION 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. 382]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 382), to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust
for the benefit of the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation,
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. 382 is to transfer into trust three separate par-
cels of land, totaling approximately 17.264 acres, currently owned
in fee simple by the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation.
BACKGROUND
The Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation (Tribe) is a fed-
erally recognized Indian Tribe with a 28 square mile reservation
that encompasses parts of the towns of Tacoma and Fife, Wash-
ington. Under the 1854 Treaty of Medicine Creek with the United
States,1 the Tribe reserved approximately 20,000 acres of land for
its reservation, which was formally established by two subsequent
Executive Orders.2 Over a course of 50 years, however, the Tribe's
reservation was reduced through Acts of Congress, sales of reserva-
110 Stat. 1132 (1854).
2Exec. Order Jan. 20, 1857; Exec. Order Sept. 6, 1873.
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