subsection shall be considered part of the reservation of the 
Tribe. 
(b) GAMING.—The Tribe may not conduct gaming ac-
tivities as a matter of claimed inherent authority or under 
the authority of any Federal law, including the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) or under 
any regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary 
or the National Indian Gaming Commission. 
SEC. 307. HUNTING, FISHING, TRAPPING, GATHERING, AND 
WATER RIGHTS. 
Nothing in this title expands, reduces, or affects in any 
manner any hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water 
rights of the Tribe and members of the Tribe. 
TITLE IV—RAPPAHANNOCK 
TRIBE, INC. 
SEC. 401. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) during the initial months after Virginia was 
settled, the Rappahannock Indians had 3 encounters 
with Captain John Smith; 
(2) the first encounter occurred when the Rappa-
hannock weroance (headman)— 
(A) traveled to Quiyocohannock (a prin-
cipal town across the James River from James-
town), where he met with Smith to determine 
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whether Smith had been the ‘‘great man’’ who 
had previously sailed into the Rappahannock 
River, killed a Rappahannock weroance, and 
kidnapped Rappahannock people; and 
(B) determined that Smith was too short to 
be that ‘‘great man’’; 
(3) on a second meeting, during John Smith’s 
captivity (December 16, 1607 to January 8, 1608), 
Smith was taken to the Rappahannock principal vil-
lage to show the people that Smith was not the ‘‘great 
man’’; 
(4) a third meeting took place during Smith’s 
exploration of the Chesapeake Bay (July to September 
1608), when, after the Moraughtacund Indians had 
stolen 3 women from the Rappahannock King, Smith 
was prevailed upon to facilitate a peaceful truce be-
tween the Rappahannock and the Moraughtacund In-
dians; 
(5) in the settlement, Smith had the 2 Indian 
tribes meet on the spot of their first fight; 
(6) when it was established that both groups 
wanted peace, Smith told the Rappahannock King to 
select which of the 3 stolen women he wanted; 
(7) the Moraughtacund King was given second 
choice among the 2 remaining women, and Mosco, a 
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Wighcocomoco (on the Potomac River) guide, was 
given the third woman; 
(8) in 1645, Captain William Claiborne tried 
unsuccessfully to establish treaty relations with the 
Rappahannocks, as the Rappahannocks had not par-
ticipated in the Pamunkey-led uprising in 1644, and 
the English wanted to ‘‘treat with the Rappahannocks 
or 
any 
other 
Indians 
not 
in 
amity 
with 
Opechancanough, concerning serving the county 
against the Pamunkeys’’; 
(9) in April 1651, the Rappahannocks conveyed 
a tract of land to an English settler, Colonel Morre 
Fauntleroy; 
(10) the deed for the conveyance was signed by 
Accopatough, weroance of the Rappahannock Indians; 
(11) in September 1653, Lancaster County 
signed a treaty with Rappahannock Indians, the 
terms of which treaty— 
(A) gave Rappahannocks the rights of Eng-
lishmen in the county court; and 
(B) attempted to make the Rappahannocks 
more accountable under English law; 
(12) in September 1653, Lancaster County de-
fined and marked the bounds of its Indian settle-
ments; 
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(13) according to the Lancaster clerk of court, 
‘‘the tribe called the great Rappahannocks lived on 
the Rappahannock Creek just across the river above 
Tappahannock’’; 
(14) in September 1656, (Old) Rappahannock 
County (which, as of the date of enactment of this 
Act, is comprised of Richmond and Essex Counties, 
Virginia) signed a treaty with Rappahannock Indi-
ans that— 
(A) mirrored the Lancaster County treaty 
from 1653; and 
(B) stated that— 
(i) Rappahannocks were to be re-
warded, in Roanoke, for returning English 
fugitives; and 
(ii) 
the 
English 
encouraged 
the 
Rappahannocks to send their children to 
live among the English as servants, who the 
English promised would be well-treated; 
(15) in 1658, the Virginia Assembly revised a 
1652 Act stating that ‘‘there be no grants of land to 
any Englishman whatsoever de futuro until the Indi-
ans be first served with the proportion of 50 acres of 
land for each bowman’’; 
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(16) in 1669, the colony conducted a census of 
Virginia Indians; 
(17) as of the date of that census— 
(A) the majority of the Rappahannocks 
were residing at their hunting village on the 
north side of the Mattaponi River; and 
(B) at the time of the visit, census-takers 
were counting only the Indian tribes along the 
rivers, which explains why only 30 Rappahan-
nock bowmen were counted on that river; 
(18) the Rappahannocks used the hunting village 
on the north side of the Mattaponi River as their pri-
mary residence until the Rappahannocks were re-
moved in 1684; 
(19) in May 1677, the Treaty of Middle Planta-
tion was signed with England; 
(20) the Pamunkey Queen Cockacoeske signed on 
behalf of the Rappahannocks, ‘‘who were supposed to 
be her tributaries’’, but before the treaty could be rati-
fied, the Queen of Pamunkey complained to the Vir-
ginia Colonial Council ‘‘that she was having trouble 
with Rappahannocks and Chickahominies, supposedly 
tributaries of hers’’; 
(21) in November 1682, the Virginia Colonial 
Council established a reservation for the Rappahan-
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nock Indians of 3,474 acres ‘‘about the town where 
they dwelt’’; 
(22) the Rappahannock ‘‘town’’ was the hunting 
village on the north side of the Mattaponi River, 
where the Rappahannocks had lived throughout the 
1670s; 
(23) the acreage allotment of the reservation was 
based on the 1658 Indian land act, which translates 
into a bowman population of 70, or an approximate 
total Rappahannock population of 350; 
(24) in 1683, following raids by Iroquoian war-
riors on both Indian and English settlements, the Vir-
ginia Colonial Council ordered the Rappahannocks to 
leave their reservation and unite with the Nanzatico 
Indians at Nanzatico Indian Town, which was lo-
cated across and up the Rappahannock River some 30 
miles; 
(25) between 1687 and 1699, the Rappahannocks 
migrated out of Nanzatico, returning to the south side 
of the Rappahannock River at Portobacco Indian 
Town; 
(26) in 1706, by order of Essex County, Lieuten-
ant Richard Covington ‘‘escorted’’ the Portobaccos 
and Rappahannocks out of Portobacco Indian Town, 
out of Essex County, and into King and Queen Coun-
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