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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 507
107TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 107-214
PROVIDING EQUITABLE COMPENSATION TO THE YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE
OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE SANTEE SIOUX TRIBE OF NEBRASKA FOR
THE LOSS OF VALUE OF CERTAIN LANDS
JULY 22, 2002.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. INOUYE, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 434]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 434) providing equitable compensation to the Yankton Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska for
the loss of value of certain lands, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon with amendment(s) and recommends that
the bill (as amended) do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 434, the Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee
Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act, is to provide additional
compensation to the Yankton and Santee Sioux Tribes for the ac-
quisition by the United States of 2,851.40 acres of the Yankton
Sioux Reservation for Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir and 593.10
acres of the Santee Sioux Reservation for Gavins Point Dam and
Reservoir on the Missouri River.
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to the Treaty of April 19, 1858 (11 Stat. 743) a 430,405-
acre reservation was established for the Yankton Sioux Indian
Tribe along the east bank of the Missouri River in Charles Mix
County, South Dakota. Approximately 40,000 acres of the reserva-
tion is currently in tribal or individual Indian trust status. In 1866,
President Andrew Johnson signed an Executive Order setting aside
four townships in northeastern Nebraska near the mouth of the
Niobrara River as a permanent home for remnants of six Santee
Sioux bands driven out of Minnesota following the so-called Sioux
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