Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Chiricahua National Park Act
The bill trades stronger federal protection, clearer National Park management, and formal tribal protections — likely increasing tourism and cultural preservation — against greater visitor pressure, new rules and temporary access limits, and added administrative and taxpayer costs.
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers a small federal parcel to a tribal health entity to enable faster local health and social services through clear title and limited liability, but it does so by relinquishing federal control and conditions and shifting contamination and financial risk in ways that could expose local residents and taxpayers to environmental and cleanup costs.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
Veterinary Services to Improve Public Health in Rural Communities Act
The bill increases tribal access to veterinary public‑health services and federal coordination to reduce zoonotic risks, but several provisions are nonbinding or costly and may impose administrative burdens or leave gaps between study, planning, and on‑the‑ground implementation.
BADGES for Native Communities Act
This bill strengthens tribal participation, missing-persons tracking, transparency, and some local hiring/health supports in Indian Country—but it increases administrative requirements, privacy and data‑sovereignty risks, and federal costs while relying on modest and temporary funding that may limit long-term impact.
To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
The bill legally ratifies a land settlement and strengthens tribal title, governance, and economic authority over the designated lands—providing certainty for the tribe and some infrastructure owners—while shifting jurisdiction away from state/local authorities and creating transitional regulatory, access, fiscal, and litigation risks for governments, residents, businesses, and taxpayers.
ARTIST Act
The bill protects Alaska Native subsistence, cultural practices, and interstate market access for authentic handicrafts while raising risks to marine mammal conservation and adding enforcement and regulatory complexities.
Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025
The bill strengthens local (Village Corporation) land control and clarifies conveyance rules for tribal communities, but it risks reducing land available for municipal use and creates legal/implementation uncertainties that could complicate future municipal formation and service delivery.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act
Expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "Hawaiian History Month" to recognize the history, culture and contributions of Native Hawaiians and reaffirm the United States Federal trust responsibility to the Native Hawaiian Community to support their well-being.
The resolution affirms Native Hawaiians' indigenous status and promotes cultural awareness and continuity of federal programs, but delivers mostly symbolic recognition and could raise expectations for legal or land-related claims without specifying remedies.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
The bill expands Tribal self-determination and locally tailored delivery of education, health, and economic programs for Indigenous communities while raising risks of uneven service quality, reduced uniform federal oversight, and added administrative costs to taxpayers.
Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides substantial, long‑term federal funding and legally ratified water allocations that can secure and build tribal water infrastructure, while trading away some tribal autonomy, imposing federal conditions and administrative hurdles, and creating notable taxpayer fiscal exposure.
Native ELDER Act
The bill strengthens tribal representation, clarifies program rules, expands allowable home-modification and capacity-building supports for older Americans (including Native elders), and collects data to inform future funding—at the cost of potential budgetary strain, higher federal/taxpayer spending risks, reduced advisory transparency, and added administrative burdens without immediate new appropriations.
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
The bill creates a federally funded, Native‑centered truth‑seeking and healing process with resources, cultural‑authority provisions, and trauma‑informed supports for boarding school survivors, while raising fiscal costs, limiting some transparency and private enforcement, and posing implementation and privacy challenges.
Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill secures significant, enforceable water rights, land, and large federal investment for the Tule River Tribe and clarifies operations—trading away broad historical and future claims and creating fiscal, legal, and operational risks and burdens for both the Tribe and downstream/non‑tribal communities.
IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025
The bill increases scheduling flexibility and clarifies eligible service sites for clinicians serving tribal communities, but does so by lengthening commitments and creating significant repayment risk and a potential diversion of providers away from IHS/tribal facilities.
Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides a one-time $137.5M federal settlement with formal trust management and structured dispute resolution to deliver and oversee payments to Quapaw claimants, trading a modest federal expenditure and possible loss of claimant control for faster, managed distribution.
Supporting Adopted Children and Families Act
The bill increases supports, culturally appropriate services, and data-driven oversight for adoptive families and children, but relies on limited federal dollars and adds reporting/compliance responsibilities that shift costs and administrative burdens to states, tribes, and service providers while raising privacy and implementation risks.
Navajo Nation Rio San José Stream System Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a comprehensive, funded settlement and immediate water-infrastructure investments for the Navajo Nation (and legal certainty for the Rio San José system) in exchange for broad waivers of historical claims, new federal and state oversight limits, contingent enforceability, and shifted costs and constraints that could limit future remedies and tribal autonomy.
Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides large, indexed federal funding and formal recognition and protection of Zuni water rights and culturally important lands—securing infrastructure, environment, and tribal stewardship—while imposing long‑term operational costs on the Tribe, restricting certain land/economic uses and recreation, requiring claim waivers, and increasing near‑term federal spending and administrative responsibilities.
Rio San José and Rio Jemez Water Settlements Act of 2025
The bill trades substantial, near-term federal funding and legal recognition of Pueblo water rights that enable infrastructure and self-governance for significant federal cost, limits on tribal legal claims, ongoing tribal O&M burdens, and retained federal and state oversight that may cause delays and litigation.
AI/AN CAPTA
The bill increases and protects earmarked CAPTA funding for tribal and migrant child-protection programs and clarifies an administrative reference, improving support for vulnerable children but potentially reducing funds available to states and leaving some statutory details unclear.
Amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993 with respect to future membership in the Catawba Indian Nation.
The bill broadens Catawba Nation membership—extending rights and access to benefits and strengthening representation for newly included people—but risks diluting per-capita resources and triggering governance, administrative, or legal disputes.
Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2026
The bill expands and targets funding to improve culturally and trauma‑informed services, accessibility, tribal support, and prevention capacity, but does so at higher federal cost and with added administrative, reporting, and financing constraints that may strain small providers and create uncertainty about real‑world funding availability.
Chiricahua National Park Act
The bill secures stronger federal protections, funding continuity, and explicit tribal access and consultation rights by converting the site to a National Park, but it also brings increased visitation and federal management that can strain local infrastructure, restrict some traditional land uses, and generate additional administrative costs and potential disputes.
Yavapai-Apache Nation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2026
The bill trades substantial federal funding, clearly defined water allocations, and new drinking‑water infrastructure that provide the Yavapai‑Apache Nation and regional communities with water certainty and health benefits, against large taxpayer costs, limits on tribal legal claims and remedies, constrained local tax revenues, reduced environmental review, and caps/restrictions that limit future flexibility.
United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act
The bill strengthens U.S. capacity to detect, disrupt, and sanction illicit gold mining and trafficking—improving financial integrity, environmental protection, and formal market pathways—while risking higher compliance costs, diplomatic friction, greater U.S. spending, and potential harm to informal miners and local communities if implementation support and safeguards are insufficient.
Indian Buffalo Management Act
The Act hands tribes meaningful authority, funding, and tools to restore buffalo for cultural, health, and conservation benefits while creating costs, disease and land‑use risks, administrative and legal tradeoffs, and program uncertainty because of a seven‑year sunset.
