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[H.R. 1384 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 Union Calendar No. 133
107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1384

                          [Report No. 107-222]

 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Navajo Long 
          Walk to Bosque Redondo as a national historic trail.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2001

  Mr. Udall of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. Cannon) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

                           September 28, 2001

              Additional sponsors: Mr. Skeen and Mr. Olver

                           September 28, 2001

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 
                                3, 2001]

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Navajo Long 
          Walk to Bosque Redondo as a national historic trail.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Long Walk National Historic Trail 
Study Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Beginning in the fall of 1863 and ending in the winter 
        of 1864, the United States Government forced thousands of 
        Navajos and Mescalero Apaches to relocate from their ancestral 
        lands to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where the tribal members were 
        held captive, virtually as prisoners of war, for over 4 years.
            (2) Thousands of Native Americans died at Fort Sumner from 
        starvation, malnutrition, disease, exposure, or conflicts 
        between the tribes and United States military personnel.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION FOR STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(____) The Long Walk Trail, a series of routes which the Navajo 
and Mescalero Apache Indian tribes were forced to walk beginning in the 
fall of 1863 as a result of their removal by the United States 
Government from their ancestral lands, generally located within a 
corridor extending through portions of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona, and 
Albuquerque, Canyon Blanco, Anton Chico, Canyon Piedra Pintado, and 
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.''.
            Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to amend the 
        National Trails System Act to designate the route in Arizona 
        and New Mexico which the Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indian 
        tribes were forced to walk in 1863 and 1864, for study for 
        potential addition to the National Trails System.''.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 133

107th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1384

                          [Report No. 107-222]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Navajo Long 
          Walk to Bosque Redondo as a national historic trail.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 28, 2001

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed