Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers ~584 acres into federal trust to strengthen the Pit River Tribe's land base and access to federal services while preserving existing easements and banning certain gaming, trading increased tribal sovereignty and services for limits on land control, potential loss of gaming-driven economic opportunity, some changes to public access, and modest taxpayer/admin costs.
Chiricahua National Park Act
The bill upgrades the site to National Park status and strengthens tribal access and cultural protections, improving conservation and legal clarity while creating greater restrictions on nearby land use, added local infrastructure pressures and occasional closures, and modest additional federal/administrative costs.
Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens coordination, transparency, and direct supports for older adults (behavioral health, caregivers, nutrition, tribal elders, abuse prevention) but does so at the cost of substantial new administrative requirements, potential funding strains and reallocations, and some privacy, equity, and oversight trade-offs.
Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act
The bill channels targeted SBA funding, culturally tailored assistance, and formal consultation to strengthen Tribal small businesses, at the cost of new federal spending, potential resource trade-offs for other small businesses, and a time-limited (7-year) program that creates future uncertainty.
Tribal Warrant Fairness Act
The bill clarifies and streamlines Tribal eligibility and participation—improving legal clarity and coordination for fugitive operations—while excluding tribes not yet on the Interior list and imposing potential administrative, coordination, and resource burdens.
ARTIST Act
The bill protects Alaska Native subsistence practices, cultural commerce, and tribal consultation while increasing evidentiary transparency in specific challenges — but it narrows which handicrafts qualify for interstate sale, may constrain subsistence if stocks are restricted, and limits state authority to regulate related materials.
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill increases local, tribal, and nonprofit ability to shape and fund regional marine conservation and boosts transparency, but it creates risks of shortened program continuity, potential narrowing of prior authorities, limited federal oversight, and possible exclusions or accountability gaps.
To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.
The bill transfers ~860 acres into trust for the Pechanga Band, protecting cultural and natural resources and preserving existing rights, while trading off local land-use control, future development flexibility, and potential tribal gaming revenue.
To amend the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.
The bill makes it easier for Catawba descendants to gain tribal membership and cultural inclusion by eliminating a political-relations proof, while risking dilution of limited tribal resources and added complexity for tribal governance.
Albuquerque Indian School Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tribal control and ownership of specific Albuquerque properties—supporting cultural, service, and development uses—while restricting gaming as a revenue option and leaving existing encumbrances and a rapid transfer timeline that could limit development and increase administrative costs.
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill grants specific Southeast Alaska communities Urban Corporation status, land, and share entitlements—providing tangible economic assets, legal clarity, and social benefits to local Alaska Natives—while creating risks of governance disputes, administrative costs, land‑use changes, and limits on future claims or public control.
To amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the “Long-Term Leasing Act”), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes
The bill lets the Mashpee Wampanoag and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) use longer leases to support stable housing and multi-decade projects, but it increases the risk of reduced tribal control and diminished land/housing availability for future tribal members if leases are not carefully negotiated.
Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers a federal parcel to a community health provider to expand local health services and speed reuse, while limiting the new owner's liability for past contamination — trading improved local care access and lower operating costs against potential environmental health risks and public cleanup or foregone federal revenue.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
The bill transfers roughly 1,082.63 acres into trust and explicitly preserves tribal treaty and river protections—strengthening tribal sovereignty, cultural use, and environmental safeguards—while reducing potential gaming opportunities, shrinking federal park acreage for those parcels and limiting some fiscal transparency around the transfer.
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill places ~265 acres into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians—strengthening tribal land base, protections, and legal clarity and increasing transparency—while shifting local land-use control to federal/trust jurisdiction and limiting future local tax and gaming revenue opportunities, with modest federal administrative costs.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill secures and clarifies tribal land ownership and public access while accelerating conveyances, but it transfers federal interests with easements and encumbrances that can limit development, reduce federal flexibility, and create administrative and legal burdens.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act
The bill clarifies the Shivwits Band's legal status and makes commercial and leasing rules more predictable—benefiting development and non‑tribal actors—while shifting dispute resolution toward state/federal fora and arbitration, which reduces tribal legal autonomy and can raise costs, uncertainty, and enforcement challenges.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act
The bill secures formal tribal land inclusion and mandates near‑term flood protections for Miccosukee Osceola Camp—improving safety and tribal control—while creating implementation, environmental review, management, and modest fiscal risks that could limit or delay benefits if not well funded and executed.
La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
The bill transfers clearly defined federal parcels to La Paz County quickly—helping local planning and protecting some cultural and sensitive resources—while shifting costs to the county, narrowing public planning opportunities, and reducing public land/access in ways that may concern local residents and recreationists.
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
The bill transfers and protects control of a culturally significant ~40-acre site to the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes—strengthening tribal sovereignty and clarifying jurisdiction—while reducing local tax revenue, limiting some federal oversight and future flexibility, and imposing transition costs for local governments and service providers.
Amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.
The bill provides modest, targeted federal funding and interagency support to help tribes grow tourism and strengthen economic self-determination, but the funding may be too small and could impose administrative burdens and trade-offs for already stretched tribal programs.
Reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, and for other purposes.
The bill returns land into federal trust for the Lytton Rancheria—strengthening tribal sovereignty, governance clarity, and access to federal services for tribe members—while reducing state/local tax and regulatory control and creating potential local land‑use impacts for nearby residents and businesses.
Provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes.
The bill gives the Miami Tribe a narrow federal path to resolve historic Illinois land claims and the chance for judicial relief if it files quickly, but it imposes an unforgiving one-year deadline and may unsettle property interests and impose costs and uncertainty on landowners, state authorities, and taxpayers.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades a negotiated cash settlement and clarified titles—reducing litigation, providing funds for the Tribe, and stabilizing local land ownership—for limits on future tribal claims and sovereignty, increased federal expenditures, and some land‑use constraints for local stakeholders.
Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funds and legal certainty to several tribal water projects—improving infrastructure and reducing local financial burdens—while increasing federal outlays and slightly reducing Treasury receipts and introducing modest administrative and budgetary risks.
Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025
Accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota at the request of that Community, and for other purposes.
The bill enables the Lower Sioux Indian Community to remove an outdated federal charter and gain clearer authority to reorganize governance, but it eliminates statutory corporate protections and may impose short-term legal/financial burdens and broader precedent concerns for other tribes.
Veterinary Services to Improve Public Health in Rural Communities Act
The bill improves tribal veterinary public‑health capacity, One Health coordination, and tribal representation in preparedness, but largely does so without guaranteed new funding and will require administrative capacity and time to translate studies and coordination into concrete, funded protections.
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill provides a modest, targeted federal payment and clearer authority to support state and local public land projects, at the cost of $5.12 million to taxpayers and a risk of creating a precedent that could complicate future budgeting and oversight.
