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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 697
108TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 108-343
TO REAFFIRM THE INHERENT SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF
THE OSAGE TRIBE TO DETERMINE ITS MEMBERSHIP
AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT
SEPTEMBER 15, 2004.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CAMPBELL, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2912]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(H.R. 2912) to reaffirm the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage
Tribe to determine its membership and form of government, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 2912 is to reaffirm the inherent sovereign
rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of
government.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 2912 affirms the right of the Osage Tribe (the tribe) to
form its own membership rules and tribal government, provided
that no rights to any shares in the mineral estate of the tribe's res-
ervation are diminished.
The tribe is a Federally recognized tribe with a nearly 1.5 mil-
lion-acre reservation located in northeast Oklahoma. In 1906, Con-
gress enacted the Osage Allotment Act (1906 Act), which is
unique among Federal Indian laws in that it restricts the Osage
Tribe from defining its own membership rules, and prescribes a
particular form of government which the tribe cannot change with-
out seeking amendment of Federal law.
All other Federally recognized Indian tribes in the nation gen-
erally have the sovereign right to make their own internal member-
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