119th Congress Native Americans
S. 630: Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025
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Summary
This bill creates a trust account, funds the account, and establishes a distribution process to settle certain claims between the federal government and the Quapaw Nation (a tribe in Oklahoma).
Specifically, the bill establishes the Quapaw Bear Settlement Trust Account and directs the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Trust Funds Administration to administer all funds appropriated to the trust account.
Interior must make payments to the tribe and individual members of the tribe in accordance with the January 2020 recommendation of the review panel of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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The bill outlines the distribution process for the settlement funds in the trust account.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- James Lankford R-OKOriginal
- Alan Armstrong R-OK
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Markwayne Mullin.
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- Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held.
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.