Public Law 115–121: To extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe. Public Law121 Public Law 115–121132 Stat. 40 2018-01-29 2018-01-29 United States Government Publishing OfficeNational Archives and Records AdministrationOffice of the Federal Registertext/xmlENPursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Locator to USLM Converter 4.15.31;Stage2.202507022026-01-02 115public ?39PUBLIC LAW 115–121—JAN. 29, 2018 THOMASINA E. JORDAN INDIAN TRIBES OF
VIRGINIA FEDERAL RECOGNITION
ACT OF 2017 132 STAT. 40 Public Law115–121 115th Congress
An Act To extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.

Jan. 29, 2018

[H.R. 984]

   Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Thomasina E. Jordan Indian

Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition

Act of 2017.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.(a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017”. (b) Table of Contents.—The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1.  Sec. 2.  TITLE I— Sec. 101.  Sec. 102.  Sec. 103.  Sec. 104.  Sec. 105.  Sec. 106.  Sec. 107.  TITLE II— Sec. 201.  Sec. 202.  Sec. 203.  Sec. 204.  Sec. 205.  Sec. 206.  Sec. 207.  TITLE III— Sec. 301.  Sec. 302.  Sec. 303.  Sec. 304.  Sec. 305.  Sec. 306.  Sec. 307.  TITLE IV— Sec. 401.  Sec. 402.  Sec. 403.  Sec. 404.  Sec. 405.  Sec. 406.  Sec. 407.  TITLE V— Sec. 501.  Sec. 502.  Sec. 503.  Sec. 504.  Sec. 505.  Sec. 506.  Sec. 507.  TITLE VI— Sec. 601.  Sec. 602.  Sec. 603.  Sec. 604.  Sec. 605.  Sec. 606.  Sec. 607.  TITLE VII— Sec. 701. 
SEC. 2. INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT OF 1978.  Nothing in this Act affects the application of section 109 of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1919).
<num value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading>CHICKAHOMINY INDIAN TRIBE</heading> <section id="d181681e415" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="101">SEC. 101. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca743ac8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ac9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in 1607, when the English settlers set shore along the Virginia coastline, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe was one of about 30 tribes that received them;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743aca-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>in 1614, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe entered into a treaty with Sir Thomas Dale, Governor of the Jamestown Colony, under which—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743acb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>the Chickahominy Indian Tribe agreed to provide two bushels of corn per man and send warriors to protect the English; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743acc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>Sir Thomas Dale agreed in return to allow the Tribe to continue to practice its own tribal governance;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743acd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>in 1646, a treaty was signed which forced the Chickahominy from their homeland to the area around the York Mattaponi River in present-day King William County, leading to the formation of a reservation;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ace-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>in 1677, following Bacon’s Rebellion, the Queen of Pamunkey signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation on behalf of the Chickahominy;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743acf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in 1702, the Chickahominy were forced from their reservation, which caused the loss of a land base;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>in 1711, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg established a grammar school for Indians called Brafferton College;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>a Chickahominy child was one of the first Indians to attend Brafferton College;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><content>in 1750, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe began to migrate from King William County back to the area around the Chickahominy River in New Kent and Charles City Counties;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in 1793, a Baptist missionary named Bradby took refuge with the Chickahominy and took a Chickahominy woman as his wife;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/42">132 STAT. 42</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>in 1831, the names of the ancestors of the modern-day Chickahominy Indian Tribe began to appear in the Charles City County census records;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><content>in 1901, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe formed Samaria Baptist Church;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>from 1901 to 1935, Chickahominy men were assessed a tribal tax so that their children could receive an education;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>the Tribe used the proceeds from the tax to build the first Samaria Indian School, buy supplies, and pay a teacher’s salary;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><content>in 1919, C. Lee Moore, Auditor of Public Accounts for Virginia, told Chickahominy Chief O.W. Adkins that he had instructed the Commissioner of Revenue for Charles City County to record Chickahominy tribal members on the county tax rolls as Indian, and not as White or colored;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ad9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>during the period of 1920 through 1930, various Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia wrote letters of introduction for Chickahominy Chiefs who had official business with Federal agencies in Washington, DC;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ada-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>in 1934, Chickahominy Chief O.O. Adkins wrote to John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, requesting money to acquire land for the Chickahominy Indian Tribe’s use, to build school, medical, and library facilities and to buy tractors, implements, and seed;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743adb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><content>in 1934, John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, wrote to Chickahominy Chief O.O. Adkins, informing him that Congress had passed the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the “Indian Reorganization Act”) (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>), but had not made the appropriation to fund the Act;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743adc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><content>in 1942, Chickahominy Chief O.O. Adkins wrote to John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, asking for help in getting the proper racial designation on Selective Service records for Chickahominy soldiers;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743add-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>in 1943, John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, asked Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News-Leader newspaper of Richmond, Virginia, to help Virginia Indians obtain proper racial designation on birth records;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ade-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/20" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="20">(20) </num><content>Collier stated that his office could not officially intervene because it had no responsibility for the Virginia Indians, “as a matter largely of historical accident”, but was “interested in them as descendants of the original inhabitants of the region”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743adf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/21" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="21">(21) </num><content>in 1948, the Veterans’ Education Committee of the Virginia State Board of Education approved Samaria Indian School to provide training to veterans;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/22" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="22">(22) </num><content>that school was established and run by the Chickahominy Indian Tribe;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/23" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="23">(23) </num><content>in 1950, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe purchased and donated to the Charles City County School Board land to be used to build a modern school for students of the Chickahominy and other Virginia Indian tribes;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/24" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="24">(24) </num><content>the Samaria Indian School included students in grades 1 through 8;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/25" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="25">(25) </num><content>in 1961, Senator Sam Ervin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, requested Chickahominy Chief O.O. <page identifier="/us/stat/132/43">132 STAT. 43</page> Adkins to provide assistance in analyzing the status of the constitutional rights of Indians “in your area”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/26" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="26">(26) </num><content>in 1967, the Charles City County school board closed Samaria Indian School and converted the school to a countywide primary school as a step toward full school integration of Indian and non-Indian students;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/27" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="27">(27) </num><content>in 1972, the Charles City County school board began receiving funds under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s458aa/etseq">25 U.S.C. 458aa et seq.</ref>) on behalf of Chickahominy students, which funding is provided as of the date of enactment of this Act under title V of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s458aaa/etseq">25 U.S.C. 458aaa et seq.</ref>);</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/28" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="28">(28) </num><content>in 1974, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe bought land and built a tribal center using monthly pledges from tribal members to finance the transactions;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/29" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="29">(29) </num><content>in 1983, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe was granted recognition as an Indian tribe by the Commonwealth of Virginia, along with five other Indian tribes; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca743ae8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s101/30" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="30">(30) </num><content>in 1985, Governor Gerald Baliles was the special guest at an intertribal Thanksgiving Day dinner hosted by the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e605" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="102">SEC. 102. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca748909-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74890a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74890b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74890c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74890d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74890e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s102/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e649" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="103">SEC. 103. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca74b01f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74b020-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74b021-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca74b022-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74b023-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca74b024-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74b025-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s103/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area comprised of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, and Henrico County, Virginia.<page identifier="/us/stat/132/44">132 STAT. 44</page></content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e716" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s104" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="104">SEC. 104. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e724" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s105" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="105">SEC. 105. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca74d736-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74d737-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s105/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca74d738-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca74d739-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s105/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e744" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="106">SEC. 106. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca75255a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca75255b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, or Henrico County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca75255c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within the boundaries of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, or Henrico County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca75255d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca75255e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca75255f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s106/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e799" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tI/s107" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="107">SEC. 107. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="II">TITLE II—</num><heading>CHICKAHOMINY INDIAN TRIBE—EASTERN DIVISION</heading> <section id="d181681e813" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="201">SEC. 201. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca760fc0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in 1607, when the English settlers set shore along the Virginia coastline, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe was one of about 30 tribes that received them;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/45">132 STAT. 45</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>in 1614, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe entered into a treaty with Sir Thomas Dale, Governor of the Jamestown Colony, under which—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>the Chickahominy Indian Tribe agreed to provide two bushels of corn per man and send warriors to protect the English; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>Sir Thomas Dale agreed in return to allow the Tribe to continue to practice its own tribal governance;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>in 1646, a treaty was signed which forced the Chickahominy from their homeland to the area around the York River in present-day King William County, leading to the formation of a reservation;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>in 1677, following Bacon’s Rebellion, the Queen of Pamunkey signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation on behalf of the Chickahominy;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in 1702, the Chickahominy were forced from their reservation, which caused the loss of a land base;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>in 1711, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg established a grammar school for Indians called Brafferton College;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fc9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>a Chickahominy child was one of the first Indians to attend Brafferton College;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fca-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><content>in 1750, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe began to migrate from King William County back to the area around the Chickahominy River in New Kent and Charles City Counties;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fcb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in 1793, a Baptist missionary named Bradby took refuge with the Chickahominy and took a Chickahominy woman as his wife;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fcc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>in 1831, the names of the ancestors of the modern-day Chickahominy Indian Tribe began to appear in the Charles City County census records;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fcd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><content>in 1870, a census revealed an enclave of Indians in New Kent County that is believed to be the beginning of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fce-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>other records were destroyed when the New Kent County courthouse was burned, leaving a State census as the only record covering that period;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fcf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>in 1901, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe formed Samaria Baptist Church;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fd0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><content>from 1901 to 1935, Chickahominy men were assessed a tribal tax so that their children could receive an education;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fd1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>the Tribe used the proceeds from the tax to build the first Samaria Indian School, buy supplies, and pay a teacher’s salary;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fd2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>in 1910, a one-room school covering grades 1 through 8 was established in New Kent County for the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca760fd3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><content>during the period of 1920 through 1921, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division began forming a tribal government;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><content>E.P. Bradby, the founder of the Tribe, was elected to be Chief;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>in 1922, Tsena Commocko Baptist Church was organized;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/20" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="20">(20) </num><content>in 1925, a certificate of incorporation was issued to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/46">132 STAT. 46</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/21" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="21">(21) </num><content>in 1950, the one-room Indian school in New Kent County was closed and students were bused to Samaria Indian School in Charles City County;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/22" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="22">(22) </num><content>in 1967, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe and the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division lost their schools as a result of the required integration of students;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636e9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/23" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="23">(23) </num><content>during the period of 1982 through 1984, Tsena Commocko Baptist Church built a new sanctuary to accommodate church growth;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636ea-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/24" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="24">(24) </num><content>in 1983 the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division was granted State recognition along with five other Virginia Indian tribes;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636eb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/25" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="25">(25) </num><chapeau>in 1985—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636ec-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/25/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>the Virginia Council on Indians was organized as a State agency; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636ed-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/25/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division was granted a seat on the Council;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636ee-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/26" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="26">(26) </num><content>in 1988, a nonprofit organization known as the “United Indians of Virginia” was formed; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7636ef-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s201/27" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="27">(27) </num><content>Chief Marvin “Strongoak” Bradby of the Eastern Band of the Chickahominy presently chairs the organization.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e985" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="202">SEC. 202. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca765e00-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca765e01-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca765e02-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca765e03-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca765e04-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca765e05-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s202/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Division.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e1029" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="203">SEC. 203. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca768516-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca768517-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca768518-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca768519-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76851a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca76851b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all future services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76851c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s203/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area comprised of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, and Henrico County, Virginia.<page identifier="/us/stat/132/47">132 STAT. 47</page></content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e1096" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s204" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="204">SEC. 204. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e1104" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s205" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="205">SEC. 205. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca76ac2d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76ac2e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s205/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca76ac2f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76ac30-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s205/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e1124" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="206">SEC. 206. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca76fa51-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76fa52-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, or Henrico County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca76fa53-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within the boundaries of New Kent County, James City County, Charles City County, or Henrico County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca76fa54-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca76fa55-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca76fa56-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s206/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e1179" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tII/s207" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="207">SEC. 207. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="III">TITLE III—</num><heading>UPPER MATTAPONI TRIBE</heading> <section id="d181681e1192" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="301">SEC. 301. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca77e4b7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca77e4b8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>during the period of 1607 through 1646, the Chickahominy Indian Tribes—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca77e4b9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>lived approximately 20 miles from Jamestown; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca77e4ba-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>were significantly involved in English-Indian affairs;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/48">132 STAT. 48</page></content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca77e4bb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>Mattaponi Indians, who later joined the Chickahominy Indians, lived a greater distance from Jamestown;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca77e4bc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>in 1646, the Chickahominy Indians moved to Mattaponi River basin, away from the English;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bcd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>in 1661, the Chickahominy Indians sold land at a place known as “the cliffs” on the Mattaponi River;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bce-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><chapeau>in 1669, the Chickahominy Indians—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bcf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/5/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>appeared in the Virginia Colony’s census of Indian bowmen; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/5/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>lived in “New Kent” County, which included the Mattaponi River basin at that time;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>in 1677, the Chickahominy and Mattaponi Indians were subjects of the Queen of Pamunkey, who was a signatory to the Treaty of 1677 with the King of England;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>in 1683, after a Mattaponi town was attacked by Seneca Indians, the Mattaponi Indians took refuge with the Chickahominy Indians, and the history of the two groups was intertwined for many years thereafter;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><chapeau>in 1695, the Chickahominy and Mattaponi Indians—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/8/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>were assigned a reservation by the Virginia Colony; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/8/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>traded land of the reservation for land at the place known as “the cliffs” (which, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is the Mattaponi Indian Reservation), which had been owned by the Mattaponi Indians before 1661;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in 1711, a Chickahominy boy attended the Indian School at the College of William and Mary;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>in 1726, the Virginia Colony discontinued funding of interpreters for the Chickahominy and Mattaponi Indian Tribes;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><content>James Adams, who served as an interpreter to the Indian tribes known as of the date of enactment of this Act as the “Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe” and “Chickahominy Indian Tribe”, elected to stay with the Upper Mattaponi Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bd9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>today, a majority of the Upper Mattaponi Indians have “Adams” as their surname;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bda-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>in 1787, Thomas Jefferson, in Notes on the Commonwealth of Virginia, mentioned the Mattaponi Indians on a reservation in King William County and said that Chickahominy Indians were “blended” with the Mattaponi Indians and nearby Pamunkey Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bdb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><content>in 1850, the census of the United States revealed a nucleus of approximately 10 families, all ancestral to modern Upper Mattaponi Indians, living in central King William County, Virginia, approximately 10 miles from the reservation;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bdc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>during the period of 1853 through 1884, King William County marriage records listed Upper Mattaponis as “Indians” in marrying people residing on the reservation;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bdd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>during the period of 1884 through the present, county marriage records usually refer to Upper Mattaponis as “Indians”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bde-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><content>in 1901, Smithsonian anthropologist James Mooney heard about the Upper Mattaponi Indians but did not visit them;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/49">132 STAT. 49</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780bdf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><content>in 1928, University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Frank Speck published a book on modern Virginia Indians with a section on the Upper Mattaponis;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>from 1929 until 1930, the leadership of the Upper Mattaponi Indians opposed the use of a “colored” designation in the 1930 United States census and won a compromise in which the Indian ancestry of the Upper Mattaponis was recorded but questioned;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/20" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="20">(20) </num><chapeau>during the period of 1942 through 1945—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/20/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>the leadership of the Upper Mattaponi Indians, with the help of Frank Speck and others, fought against the induction of young men of the Tribe into “colored” units in the Armed Forces of the United States; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/20/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>a tribal roll for the Upper Mattaponi Indians was compiled;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/21" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="21">(21) </num><content>from 1945 to 1946, negotiations took place to admit some of the young people of the Upper Mattaponi to high schools for Federal Indians (especially at Cherokee) because no high school coursework was available for Indians in Virginia schools; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca780be5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s301/22" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="22">(22) </num><content>in 1983, the Upper Mattaponi Indians applied for and won State recognition as an Indian tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e1358" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="302">SEC. 302. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7831f6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7831f7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7831f8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7831f9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7831fa-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7831fb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s302/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the Upper Mattaponi Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e1402" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="303">SEC. 303. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78590c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca78590d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca78590e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78590f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca788020-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca788021-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca788022-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s303/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area within 25 miles of the Sharon Indian School at 13383 King William Road, King William County, Virginia.<page identifier="/us/stat/132/50">132 STAT. 50</page></content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e1469" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s304" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="304">SEC. 304. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e1477" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s305" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="305">SEC. 305. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca788023-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca788024-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s305/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca788025-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca788026-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s305/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e1497" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="306">SEC. 306. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78ce47-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca78ce48-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of King William County, Caroline County, Hanover County, King and Queen County, and New Kent County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca78ce49-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within the boundaries of King William County, Caroline County, Hanover County, King and Queen County, and New Kent County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78ce4a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78ce4b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca78ce4c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s306/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e1552" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIII/s307" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="307">SEC. 307. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="IV">TITLE IV—</num><heading>RAPPAHANNOCK TRIBE, INC.</heading> <section id="d181681e1565" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="401">SEC. 401. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7b8d6d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d6e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>during the initial months after Virginia was settled, the Rappahannock Indians had three encounters with Captain John Smith;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/51">132 STAT. 51</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d6f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>the first encounter occurred when the Rappahannock weroance (headman)—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d70-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>traveled to Quiyocohannock (a principal town across the James River from Jamestown), where he met with Smith to determine whether Smith had been the “great man” who had previously sailed into the Rappahannock River, killed a Rappahannock weroance, and kidnapped Rappahannock people; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d71-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>determined that Smith was too short to be that “great man”;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d72-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>on a second meeting, during John Smith’s captivity (December 16, 1607, to January 8, 1608), Smith was taken to the Rappahannock principal village to show the people that Smith was not the “great man”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d73-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>a third meeting took place during Smith’s exploration of the Chesapeake Bay (July to September 1608), when, after the Moraughtacund Indians had stolen three women from the Rappahannock King, Smith was prevailed upon to facilitate a peaceful truce between the Rappahannock and the Moraughtacund Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d74-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in the settlement, Smith had the two Indian tribes meet on the spot of their first fight;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d75-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>when it was established that both groups wanted peace, Smith told the Rappahannock King to select which of the three stolen women he wanted;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d76-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>the Moraughtacund King was given second choice among the two remaining women, and Mosco, a Wighcocomoco (on the Potomac River) guide, was given the third woman;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d77-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><content>in 1645, Captain William Claiborne tried unsuccessfully to establish treaty relations with the Rappahannocks, as the Rappahannocks had not participated in the Pamunkey-led uprising in 1644, and the English wanted to “treat with the Rappahannocks or any other Indians not in amity with Opechancanough, concerning serving the county against the Pamunkeys”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d78-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in April 1651, the Rappahannocks conveyed a tract of land to an English settler, Colonel Morre Fauntleroy;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d79-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>the deed for the conveyance was signed by Accopatough, weroance of the Rappahannock Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><chapeau>in September 1653, Lancaster County signed a treaty with Rappahannock Indians, the terms of which treaty—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/11/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>gave Rappahannocks the rights of Englishmen in the county court; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/11/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>attempted to make the Rappahannocks more accountable under English law;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>in September 1653, Lancaster County defined and marked the bounds of its Indian settlements;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>according to the Lancaster clerk of court, “the tribe called the great Rappahannocks lived on the Rappahannock Creek just across the river above Tappahannock”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d7f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><chapeau>in September 1656, (Old) Rappahannock County (which, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is comprised of Richmond and Essex Counties, Virginia) signed a treaty with Rappahannock Indians that—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d80-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/14/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>mirrored the Lancaster County treaty from 1653; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d81-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/14/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau>stated that—<page identifier="/us/stat/132/52">132 STAT. 52</page></chapeau><clause class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d82-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/14/B/i" style="-uslm-lc:I658126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">(i) </num><content>Rappahannocks were to be rewarded, in Roanoke, for returning English fugitives; and</content></clause> <clause class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d83-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/14/B/ii" style="-uslm-lc:I658126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">(ii) </num><content>the English encouraged the Rappahannocks to send their children to live among the English as servants, who the English promised would be well-treated;</content></clause> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7b8d84-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>in 1658, the Virginia Assembly revised a 1652 Act stating that “there be no grants of land to any Englishman whatsoever de futuro until the Indians be first served with the proportion of 50 acres of land for each bowman”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb495-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>in 1669, the colony conducted a census of Virginia Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb496-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><chapeau>as of the date of that census—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb497-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/17/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>the majority of the Rappahannocks were residing at their hunting village on the north side of the Mattaponi River; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb498-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/17/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>at the time of the visit, census-takers were counting only the Indian tribes along the rivers, which explains why only 30 Rappahannock bowmen were counted on that river;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb499-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><content>the Rappahannocks used the hunting village on the north side of the Mattaponi River as their primary residence until the Rappahannocks were removed in 1684;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>in May 1677, the Treaty of Middle Plantation was signed with England;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/20" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="20">(20) </num><content>the Pamunkey Queen Cockacoeske signed on behalf of the Rappahannocks, “who were supposed to be her tributaries”, but before the treaty could be ratified, the Queen of Pamunkey complained to the Virginia Colonial Council “that she was having trouble with Rappahannocks and Chickahominies, supposedly tributaries of hers”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/21" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="21">(21) </num><content>in November 1682, the Virginia Colonial Council established a reservation for the Rappahannock Indians of 3,474 acres “about the town where they dwelt”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/22" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="22">(22) </num><content>the Rappahannock “town” was the hunting village on the north side of the Mattaponi River, where the Rappahannocks had lived throughout the 1670s;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/23" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="23">(23) </num><content>the acreage allotment of the reservation was based on the 1658 Indian land act, which translates into a bowman population of 70, or an approximate total Rappahannock population of 350;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb49f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/24" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="24">(24) </num><content>in 1683, following raids by Iroquoian warriors on both Indian and English settlements, the Virginia Colonial Council ordered the Rap­pa­han­nocks to leave their reservation and unite with the Nanzatico Indians at Nanzatico Indian Town, which was located across and up the Rappahannock River some 30 miles;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/25" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="25">(25) </num><content>between 1687 and 1699, the Rap­pa­han­nocks migrated out of Nanzatico, returning to the south side of the Rappahannock River at Portobacco Indian Town;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/26" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="26">(26) </num><content>in 1706, by order of Essex County, Lieutenant Richard Covington “escorted” the Por­to­bac­cos and Rappahannocks out of Portobacco Indian Town, out of Essex County, and into King and Queen County where they settled along the ridgeline between the Rappahannock and Mattaponi Rivers, the site of their ancient hunting village and 1682 reservation;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/53">132 STAT. 53</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/27" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="27">(27) </num><content>during the 1760s, three Rappahannock girls were raised on Thomas Nelson’s Bleak Hill Plantation in King William County;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/28" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="28">(28) </num><chapeau>of those girls—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/28/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>one married a Saunders man;</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/28/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>one married a Johnson man; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/28/C" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">(C) </num><content>one had two children, Edmund and Carter Nelson, fathered by Thomas Cary Nelson;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/29" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="29">(29) </num><content>in the 19th century, those Saunders, Johnson, and Nelson families are among the core Rappahannock families from which the modern Tribe traces its descent;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/30" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="30">(30) </num><content>in 1819 and 1820, Edward Bird, John Bird (and his wife), Carter Nelson, Edmund Nelson, and Carter Spurlock (all Rappahannock ancestors) were listed on the tax roles of King and Queen County and taxed at the county poor rate;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4a9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/31" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="31">(31) </num><content>Edmund Bird was added to the tax roles in 1821;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4aa-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/32" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="32">(32) </num><content>those tax records are significant documentation because the great majority of pre-1864 records for King and Queen County were destroyed by fire;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ab-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/33" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="33">(33) </num><content>beginning in 1819, and continuing through the 1880s, there was a solid Rappahannock presence in the membership at Upper Essex Baptist Church;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ac-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/34" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="34">(34) </num><content>that was the first instance of conversion to Christianity by at least some Rappahannock Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ad-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/35" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="35">(35) </num><content>while 26 identifiable and traceable Rappahannock surnames appear on the pre-1863 membership list, and 28 were listed on the 1863 membership roster, the number of surnames listed had declined to 12 in 1878 and had risen only slightly to 14 by 1888;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ae-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/36" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="36">(36) </num><content>a reason for the decline is that in 1870, a Methodist circuit rider, Joseph Mastin, secured funds to purchase land and construct St. Stephens Baptist Church for the Rappahannocks living nearby in Caroline County;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4af-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/37" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="37">(37) </num><content>Mastin referred to the Rappahannocks during the period of 1850 to 1870 as “Indians, having a great need for moral and Christian guidance”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/38" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="38">(38) </num><content>St. Stephens was the dominant tribal church until the Rappahannock Indian Baptist Church was established in 1964;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/39" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="39">(39) </num><content>at both churches, the core Rappahannock family names of Bird, Clarke, Fortune, Johnson, Nelson, Parker, and Richardson predominate;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/40" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="40">(40) </num><content>during the early 1900s, James Mooney, noted anthropologist, maintained correspondence with the Rappahannocks, surveying them and instructing them on how to formalize their tribal government;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/41" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="41">(41) </num><content>in November 1920, Speck visited the Rappahannocks and assisted them in organizing the fight for their sovereign rights;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/42" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="42">(42) </num><content>in 1921, the Rappahannocks were granted a charter from the Commonwealth of Virginia formalizing their tribal government;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/43" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="43">(43) </num><content>Speck began a professional relationship with the Tribe that would last more than 30 years and document Rappahannock history and traditions as never before;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/44" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="44">(44) </num><content>in April 1921, Rappahannock Chief George Nelson asked the Governor of Virginia, Westmoreland Davis, to forward <page identifier="/us/stat/132/54">132 STAT. 54</page> a proclamation to the President of the United States, along with an appended list of tribal members and a handwritten copy of the proclamation itself;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/45" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="45">(45) </num><content>the letter concerned Indian freedom of speech and assembly nationwide;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/46" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="46">(46) </num><content>in 1922, the Rappahannocks established a formal school at Lloyds, Essex County, Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4b9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/47" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="47">(47) </num><content>prior to establishment of the school, Rappahannock children were taught by a tribal member in Central Point, Caroline County, Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ba-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/48" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="48">(48) </num><content>in December 1923, Rappahannock Chief George Nelson testified before Congress appealing for a $50,000 appropriation to establish an Indian school in Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4bb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/49" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="49">(49) </num><content>in 1930, the Rappahannocks were engaged in an ongoing dispute with the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States Census Bureau about their classification in the 1930 Federal census;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4bc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/50" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="50">(50) </num><content>in January 1930, Rappahannock Chief Otho S. Nelson wrote to Leon Truesdell, Chief Statistician of the United States Census Bureau, asking that the 218 enrolled Rappahannocks be listed as Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4bd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/51" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="51">(51) </num><content>in February 1930, Truesdell replied to Nelson saying that “special instructions” were being given about classifying Indians;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4be-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/52" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="52">(52) </num><content>in April 1930, Nelson wrote to William M. Steuart at the Census Bureau asking about the enumerators’ failure to classify his people as Indians, saying that enumerators had not asked the question about race when they interviewed his people;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4bf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/53" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="53">(53) </num><content>in a followup letter to Truesdell, Nelson reported that the enumerators were “flatly denying” his people’s request to be listed as Indians and that the race question was completely avoided during interviews;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/54" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="54">(54) </num><content>the Rappahannocks had spoken with Caroline and Essex County enumerators, and with John M.W. Green at that point, without success;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/55" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="55">(55) </num><content>Nelson asked Truesdell to list people as Indians if he sent a list of members;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/56" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="56">(56) </num><content>the matter was settled by William Steuart, who concluded that the Bureau’s rule was that people of Indian descent could be classified as “Indian” only if Indian “blood” predominated and “Indian” identity was accepted in the local community;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/57" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="57">(57) </num><content>the Virginia Vital Statistics Bureau classed all nonreservation Indians as “Negro”, and it failed to see why “an exception should be made” for the Rappahannocks;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/58" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="58">(58) </num><content>therefore, in 1925, the Indian Rights Association took on the Rappahannock case to assist the Rappahannocks in fighting for their recognition and rights as an Indian tribe;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/59" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="59">(59) </num><content>during the Second World War, the Pamunkeys, Mattaponis, Chickahominies, and Rap­pa­han­nocks had to fight the draft boards with respect to their racial identities;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/60" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="60">(60) </num><content>the Virginia Vital Statistics Bureau insisted that certain Indian draftees be inducted into Negro units;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/61" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="61">(61) </num><content>finally, three Rappahannocks were convicted of violating the Federal draft laws and, after spending time in a Federal prison, were granted conscientious objector status and <page identifier="/us/stat/132/55">132 STAT. 55</page> served out the remainder of the war working in military hospitals;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/62" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="62">(62) </num><content>in 1943, Frank Speck noted that there were approximately 25 communities of Indians left in the Eastern United States that were entitled to Indian classification, including the Rappahannocks;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4c9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/63" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="63">(63) </num><content>in the 1940s, Leon Truesdell, Chief Statistician, of the United States Census Bureau, listed 118 members in the Rappahannock Tribe in the Indian population of Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ca-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/64" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="64">(64) </num><content>on April 25, 1940, the Office of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior included the Rappahannocks on a list of Indian tribes classified by State and by agency;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4cb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/65" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="65">(65) </num><content>in 1948, the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report included an article by William Harlen Gilbert entitled, “Surviving Indian Groups of the Eastern United States”, which included and described the Rappahannock Tribe;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4cc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/66" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="66">(66) </num><content>in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Rappahannocks operated a school at Indian Neck;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4cd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/67" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="67">(67) </num><content>the State agreed to pay a tribal teacher to teach 10 students bused by King and Queen County to Sharon Indian School in King William County, Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4ce-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/68" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="68">(68) </num><content>in 1965, Rappahannock students entered Marriott High School (a White public school) by Executive order of the Governor of Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4cf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/69" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="69">(69) </num><content>in 1972, the Rappahannocks worked with the Coalition of Eastern Native Americans to fight for Federal recognition;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4d0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/70" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="70">(70) </num><content>in 1979, the Coalition established a pottery and artisans company, operating with other Virginia tribes;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4d1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/71" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="71">(71) </num><content>in 1980, the Rappahannocks received funding through the Administration for Native Americans of the Department of Health and Human Services to develop an economic program for the Tribe; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7bb4d2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s401/72" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="72">(72) </num><content>in 1983, the Rappahannocks received State recognition as an Indian tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2026" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="402">SEC. 402. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7c02f3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02f9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/3/A" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the organization possessing the legal name Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c02fa-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s402/3/B" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Exclusions</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” does not include any other Indian tribe, subtribe, band, or splinter group the members of which represent themselves as Rappahannock Indians.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2087" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="403">SEC. 403. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c2a0b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c2a0c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.<page identifier="/us/stat/132/56">132 STAT. 56</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c2a0d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c2a0e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c2a0f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7c2a10-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c5121-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s403/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area comprised of King and Queen County, Caroline County, Essex County, and King William County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2154" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s404" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="404">SEC. 404. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e2162" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s405" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="405">SEC. 405. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7c5122-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c5123-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s405/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7c5124-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c5125-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s405/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2182" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="406">SEC. 406. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c9f46-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c9f47-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of King and Queen County, Stafford County, Spotsylvania County, Richmond County, Essex County, and Caroline County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7c9f48-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within the boundaries of King and Queen County, Richmond County, Lancaster County, King George County, Essex County, Caroline County, New Kent County, King William County, and James City County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c9f49-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c9f4a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7c9f4b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s406/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act <page identifier="/us/stat/132/57">132 STAT. 57</page> (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2240" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tIV/s407" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="407">SEC. 407. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="V">TITLE V—</num><heading>MONACAN INDIAN NATION</heading> <section id="d181681e2253" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="501">SEC. 501. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7d629c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d629d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in 1677, the Monacan Tribe signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation between Charles II of England and 12 Indian “Kings and Chief Men”;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d629e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in 1722, in the Treaty of Albany, Governor Spotswood negotiated to save the Virginia Indians from extinction at the hands of the Iroquois;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d629f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>specifically mentioned in the negotiations were the Monacan tribes of the Totero (Tutelo), Saponi, Ocheneeches (Occaneechi), Stengenocks, and Meipontskys;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>in 1790, the first national census recorded Benjamin Evans and Robert Johns, both ancestors of the present Monacan community, listed as “white” with mulatto children;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in 1782, tax records also began for those families;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>in 1850, the United States census recorded 29 families, mostly large, with Monacan surnames, the members of which are genealogically related to the present community;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>in 1870, a log structure was built at the Bear Mountain Indian Mission;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><content>in 1908, the structure became an Episcopal Mission and, as of the date of enactment of this Act, the structure is listed as a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in 1920, 304 Amherst Indians were identified in the United States census;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>from 1930 through 1931, numerous letters from Monacans to the Bureau of the Census resulted from the decision of Dr. Walter Plecker, former head of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not to allow Indians to register as Indians for the 1930 census;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><content>the Monacans eventually succeeded in being allowed to claim their race, albeit with an asterisk attached to a note from Dr. Plecker stating that there were no Indians in Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>in 1947, D’Arcy McNickle, a Salish Indian, saw some of the children at the Amherst Mission and requested that the Cherokee Agency visit them because they appeared to be Indian;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62a9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>that letter was forwarded to the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Chicago, Illinois;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62aa-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><content>Chief Jarrett Blythe of the Eastern Band of Cherokee did visit the Mission and wrote that he “would be willing to accept these children in the Cherokee school”;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/58">132 STAT. 58</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62ab-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>in 1979, a Federal Coalition of Eastern Native Americans established the entity known as “Monacan Co-operative Pottery” at the Amherst Mission;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62ac-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>some important pieces were produced at Monacan Co-operative Pottery, including a piece that was sold to the Smithsonian Institution;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62ad-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><content>the Mattaponi-Pamunkey-Monacan Consortium, established in 1981, has since been organized as a nonprofit corporation that serves as a vehicle to obtain funds for those Indian tribes from the Department of Labor under Native American programs;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62ae-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><content>in 1989, the Monacan Tribe was recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which enabled the Tribe to apply for grants and participate in other programs; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d62af-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s501/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>in 1993, the Monacan Tribe received tax-exempt status as a nonprofit corporation from the Internal Revenue Service.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2361" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="502">SEC. 502. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7d89c0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d89c1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d89c2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d89c3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d89c4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7d89c5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s502/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the Monacan Indian Nation.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2405" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="503">SEC. 503. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7db0d6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7db0d7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7db0d8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7db0d9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7db0da-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7dd7eb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7dd7ec-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s503/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area comprised of all land within 25 miles from the center of Amherst, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2469" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s504" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="504">SEC. 504. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e2477" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s505" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="505">SEC. 505. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7dd7ed-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—<page identifier="/us/stat/132/59">132 STAT. 59</page></chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7dd7ee-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s505/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7dd7ef-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7dd7f0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s505/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2499" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="506">SEC. 506. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7e2611-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7e2612-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of Amherst County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7e2613-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within the boundaries of Amherst County, Virginia, and those parcels in Rockbridge County, Virginia (subject to the consent of the local unit of government), owned by Mr. J. Poole, described as East 731 Sandbridge (encompassing approximately 4.74 acres) and East 731 (encompassing approximately 5.12 acres).</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7e2614-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7e2615-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7e2616-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s506/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2554" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tV/s507" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="507">SEC. 507. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="VI">TITLE VI—</num><heading>NANSEMOND INDIAN TRIBE</heading> <section id="d181681e2567" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="601">SEC. 601. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7f1077-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1078-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>from 1607 until 1646, Nansemond Indians—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1079-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>lived approximately 30 miles from Jamestown; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>were significantly involved in English-Indian affairs;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>after 1646, there were two sections of Nansemonds in communication with each other, the Christianized Nansemonds in Norfolk County, who lived as citizens, and the traditionalist Nansemonds, who lived further west;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/3" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>in 1638, according to an entry in a 17th century sermon book still owned by the Chief’s family, a Norfolk County Englishman married a Nan­se­mond woman;<page identifier="/us/stat/132/60">132 STAT. 60</page></content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/4" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>that man and woman are lineal ancestors of all of members of the Nansemond Indian tribe alive as of the date of enactment of this Act, as are some of the traditionalist Nansemonds;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/5" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in 1669, the two Nansemond sections appeared in Virginia Colony’s census of Indian bow­men;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f107f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/6" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>in 1677, Nansemond Indians were signatories to the Treaty of 1677 with the King of England;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1080-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/7" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>in 1700 and 1704, the Nansemonds and other Virginia Indian tribes were prevented by Virginia Colony from making a separate peace with the Iroquois;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1081-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/8" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="8">(8) </num><content>Virginia represented those Indian tribes in the final Treaty of Albany, 1722;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1082-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/9" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="9">(9) </num><content>in 1711, a Nansemond boy attended the Indian School at the College of William and Mary;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1083-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/10" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="10">(10) </num><content>in 1727, Norfolk County granted William Bass and his kinsmen the “Indian privileges” of clearing swamp land and bearing arms (which privileges were forbidden to other non-Whites) because of their Nansemond ancestry, which meant that Bass and his kinsmen were original inhabitants of that land;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1084-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/11" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="11">(11) </num><content>in 1742, Norfolk County issued a certificate of Nansemond descent to William Bass;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1085-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/12" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="12">(12) </num><content>from the 1740s to the 1790s, the traditionalist section of the Nansemond tribe, 40 miles west of the Christianized Nansemonds, was dealing with reservation land;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1086-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/13" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="13">(13) </num><content>the last surviving members of that section sold out in 1792 with the permission of the Commonwealth of Virginia;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1087-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/14" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="14">(14) </num><content>in 1797, Norfolk County issued a certificate stating that William Bass was of Indian and English descent, and that his Indian line of ancestry ran directly back to the early 18th century elder in a traditionalist section of Nansemonds on the reservation;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1088-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/15" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="15">(15) </num><content>in 1833, Virginia enacted a law enabling people of European and Indian descent to obtain a special certificate of ancestry;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1089-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/16" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="16">(16) </num><content>the law originated from the county in which Nansemonds lived, and mostly Nansemonds, with a few people from other counties, took advantage of the new law;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108a-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/17" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="17">(17) </num><content>a Methodist mission established around 1850 for Nansemonds is currently a standard Methodist congregation with Nansemond members;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108b-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/18" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="18">(18) </num><chapeau>in 1901, Smithsonian anthropologist James Mooney—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108c-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/18/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>visited the Nansemonds; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108d-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/18/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>completed a tribal census that counted 61 households and was later published;</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108e-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/19" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="19">(19) </num><content>in 1922, Nansemonds were given a special Indian school in the segregated school system of Norfolk County;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f108f-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/20" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="20">(20) </num><content>the school survived only a few years;</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1090-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/21" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="21">(21) </num><content>in 1928, University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Frank Speck published a book on modern Virginia Indians that included a section on the Nansemonds; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f1091-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s601/22" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="22">(22) </num><content>the Nansemonds were organized formally, with elected officers, in 1984, and later applied for and received State recognition.<page identifier="/us/stat/132/61">132 STAT. 61</page></content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2713" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="602">SEC. 602. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7f37a2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  In this title:</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f37a3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602/1" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secretary</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of the Interior.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f37a4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602/2" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribal member</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>tribal member</term>” means—</chapeau><subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f37a5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>an individual who is an enrolled member of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph> <subparagraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f37a6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I658124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>an individual who has been placed on the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance with this title.</content></subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f37a7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s602/3" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tribe</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Tribe</term>” means the Nansemond Indian Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2757" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="603">SEC. 603. </num><heading>FEDERAL RECOGNITION.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7f85c8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Recognition</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f85c9-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Federal recognition is extended to the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f85ca-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Applicability of laws</inline>.—</heading><content>All laws (including regulations) of the United States of general applicability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s461/etseq">25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.</ref>)) that are not inconsistent with this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal members.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7f85cb-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Services and Benefits</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f85cc-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7f85cd-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided by the Federal Government to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe.</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7f85ce-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s603/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Service area</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purpose of the delivery of Federal services to tribal members, the service area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area comprised of the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2821" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s604" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="604">SEC. 604. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The membership roll and governing documents of the Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and governing documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act.</content></section> <section id="d181681e2829" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s605" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="605">SEC. 605. </num><heading>GOVERNING BODY.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xca7facdf-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  The governing body of the Tribe shall be—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7face0-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s605/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xca7face1-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Effective date.</p></sidenote><content>the governing body of the Tribe in place as of the date of enactment of this Act; or</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7face2-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s605/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>any subsequent governing body elected in accordance with the election procedures specified in the governing documents of the Tribe.</content></paragraph> </section> <section id="d181681e2849" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="606">SEC. 606. </num><heading>RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f3-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the request of the Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior—</chapeau><paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f4-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>shall take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe that was acquired by the Tribe on or before January 1, 2007, if such lands are located within the boundaries of the city of Suffolk, the city of Chesapeake, or Isle of Wight County, Virginia; and</content></paragraph> <paragraph class="fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f5-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I658122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>may take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe any land held in fee by the Tribe, if such lands are located within <page identifier="/us/stat/132/62">132 STAT. 62</page> the boundaries of the city of Suffolk, the city of Chesapeake, or Isle of Wight County, Virginia.</content></paragraph> </subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f6-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/b" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Determination</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary shall make a final written determination not later than 3 years of the date which the Tribe submits a request for land to be taken into trust under subsection (a)(2) and shall immediately make that determination available to the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f7-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/c" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservation Status</inline>.—</heading><content>Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this paragraph shall, upon request of the Tribe, be considered part of the reservation of the Tribe.</content></subsection> <subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="yca7fd3f8-e839-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s606/d" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Tribe may not conduct gaming activities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t25/s2701/etseq">25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.</ref>) or under any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary or the National Indian Gaming Commission.</content></subsection> </section> <section id="d181681e2908" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVI/s607" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="607">SEC. 607. </num><heading>HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND WATER RIGHTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe.</content></section> <num value="VII">TITLE VII—</num><heading>EMINENT DOMAIN</heading> <section id="d181681e2921" identifier="/us/pl/115/121/tVII/s701" style="-uslm-lc:I658143"><num class="fontsize12" value="701">SEC. 701. </num><heading>LIMITATION.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Eminent domain may not be used to acquire lands in fee or in trust for an Indian tribe recognized under this Act.</content></section> Approved January 29, 2018.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 984: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 163 (2017):

May 17, considered and passed House.

Vol. 164 (2018):

Jan. 11, considered and passed Senate.

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