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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-279
TO REPEAL THE ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO CONFER JURISDICTION ON
THE STATE OF IOWA OVER OFFENSES COMMITTED BY OR AGAINST IN-
DIANS ON THE SAC AND FOX INDIAN RESERVATION
AUGUST 29, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1074]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1074) to repeal the Act entitled An Act to confer jurisdic-
tion on the State of Iowa over offenses committed by or against In-
dians on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1074 is to repeal the Act entitled An Act
to confer jurisdiction on the State of Iowa over offenses committed
by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi of Iowa live on what
is known as the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County, Iowa,
which houses more than 1,300 enrolled members.1 The tribe pur-
chased 84 acres of original reservation lands in Iowa in 1857, but
the land was not placed into trust until 1896. Pursuant to an Act
of Congress (62 Stat. 1161, chapter 759), all crimes on the Tribe's
land, regardless of the Indian status of the offender or victim, fall
under the jurisdiction of the State of Iowa. H.R. 1074 would rescind
this Act and thereby put crimes committed by or against Indians
on the Tribe's lands under federal or tribal jurisdiction in a manner
'Meskwaki Official Site; http://www.meskwaki.org.
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