S 642
Passed a chamber
Authorizes $33.9 million to compensate the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for federal land taken from its reservation in Michigan, and clears private landowners' titles to the affected land once the payment is received.
Official title: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received
15-DEC-2025
Senate
Introduced
19-FEB-2025
Referred
19-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
29-SEP-2025
On the calendar
29-SEP-2025
Passed
11-DEC-2025
- Requires the Interior Secretary to transfer $33,900,000 to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community once the funds are made available, and authorizes that amount for fiscal year 2026.
- Lets the Community use the payment for governmental services, economic development, natural resources protection, and land acquisition, but not to acquire land for gaming.
- Extinguishes the Community's claims to Reservation Swamp Lands and Reservation Canal Lands owned by others and clears current owners' titles of Community rights, effective when the Community receives the payment.
- Bars the Secretary from taking land into trust for gaming under this Act.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (19-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in Senate, 11-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
Native Americans
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