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S. Rept. 115-65 1 (2017-05-16)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaivh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION . Calendar No. 83 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session SENATE 115-65 WESTERN OREGON TRIBAL FAIRNESS ACT MAY 16, 2017.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 5081 The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 508) to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of S. 508 is to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. BACKGROUND AND NEED Title I. Cow Creek Umpqua Land Conveyance The Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe and its reservation are located in Canyonville, Oregon, along Interstate 5. The Tribe was the second in the state to sign a treaty with the United States in 1853, which the Senate ratified in 1854. According to the Tribe, its ancestral lands included territory between the Cascade Mountains and the Coast Ranges in southwestern Oregon along the South Umpqua River and its primary feeder stream, Cow Creek. The United States formally terminated the Tribe through the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act of 1954 (Termination Act, Public Law 588, Chapter 733, 68 Stat. 724). This Act also ter- minated over 60 other tribes in Oregon. The Termination Era, as it became known, had a profound effect on Oregon Indian Tribes. When a tribe was terminated, it lost its recognized status as a sov- 69-010* (Star Print)