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Calendar No. 923
106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 106-474
PROVIDING FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES AND CLAIMS RELATED TO
THE TRUST LANDS OF THE TORRES-MARTINEZ DESERT CAHUILLA INDI-
ANS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
OCTOBER 3 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 2000.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CAMPBELL, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4643]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(H.R. 4643) to provide for the settlement of issues and claims re-
lated to the trust lands of the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla In-
dians, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 4643 is to provide for the settlement of
issues and claims related to the trust lands of the Torres-Martinez
Desert Cahuilla Indians of California.
BACKGROUND
The Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians have lived in the
Coachella Valley area of Southern California for hundreds of years.
The Tribe currently numbers more than 500 members who live on
or in the vicinity of the more than 40 separate land parcels that
comprise the Torres-Martinez Reservation.
The Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation was created in 1876 in
the Coachella Valley north of the Salton Sink. In 1891, an Execu-
tive Order expanded the original 640-acre reservation by about
12,000 acres. Between 1905 and 1907, flood waters of the Colorado
River filled the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea and inun-
dating about 2,000 acres of the 1891 reservation lands. In 1909, a
Secretarial Order transferred another 12,000 acres of land to the
Reservation. About 9,000 acres of these lands were submerged
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