Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 4/30/2025
Actions
- 2025-04-30Subcommittee Hearings Held
- 2025-04-23Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
- 2025-02-21Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- 2025-02-21Introduced in House
- 2025-02-21Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2025-02-21 (00)
Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025
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.
The bill outlines the distribution process for the settlement funds in the trust account.
Subjects
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
- Federal-Indian relations
- Government trust funds
- Indian claims
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