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S. Rept. 119-70 1 (2025-09-29)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahtq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 175 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session SENATE 119-70 KEWEENAW BAY INDIAN COMMUNITY LAND CLAIM SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2025 SEPTEMBER 29, 2025.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 642] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill, (S. 642) to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that were guaranteed to the Community under a trea- ty signed in 1854, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec- ommends that the bill, do pass. PURPOSE S. 642 would acknowledge the uncompensated taking of Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC or Tribe) lands by the federal government, provide compensation for the taking of those lands, and extinguish all KBIC claims to those lands in exchange for the provided compensation. BACKGROUND AND NEED KBIC is a federally recognized Indian Tribe with a reservation primarily comprised of two non-contiguous tracts within Baraga County in Michigan. The Tribe is the successor in interest to two treaties with the United States guaranteeing rights of use and oc- cupancy of certain Michigan lands in the Keweenaw Bay area in 59-010