Eastern United States’’, which included and described 
the Rappahannock Tribe; 
(66) in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the 
Rappahannocks operated a school at Indian Neck; 
(67) the State agreed to pay a tribal teacher to 
teach 10 students bused by King and Queen County 
to Sharon Indian School in King William County, 
Virginia; 
(68) in 1965, Rappahannock students entered 
Marriott High School (a white public school) by exec-
utive order of the Governor of Virginia; 
(69) in 1972, the Rappahannocks worked with 
the Coalition of Eastern Native Americans to fight for 
Federal recognition; 
(70) in 1979, the Coalition established a pottery 
and artisans company, operating with other Virginia 
tribes; 
(71) in 1980, the Rappahannocks received fund-
ing through the Administration for Native Americans 
of the Department of Health and Human Services to 
develop an economic program for the Tribe; and 
(72) in 1983, the Rappahannocks received State 
recognition as an Indian tribe. 
SEC. 402. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
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(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(2) TRIBAL MEMBER.—The term ‘‘tribal mem-
ber’’ means— 
(A) an individual who is an enrolled mem-
ber of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of 
this Act; and 
(B) an individual who has been placed on 
the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance 
with this title. 
(3) TRIBE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means 
the organization possessing the legal name Rap-
pahannock Tribe, Inc. 
(B) EXCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ does 
not include any other Indian tribe, subtribe, 
band, or splinter group the members of which 
represent themselves as Rappahannock Indians. 
SEC. 403. FEDERAL RECOGNITION. 
(a) FEDERAL RECOGNITION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Federal recognition is ex-
tended to the Tribe. 
(2) APPLICABILITY OF LAWS.—All laws (includ-
ing regulations) of the United States of general appli-
cability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands 
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of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 
U.S.C. 461 et seq.)) that are not inconsistent with 
this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal 
members. 
(b) FEDERAL SERVICES AND BENEFITS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—On and after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members 
shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided 
by the Federal Government to federally recognized In-
dian tribes without regard to— 
(A) the existence of a reservation for the 
Tribe; or 
(B) the location of the residence of any trib-
al member on or near any Indian reservation. 
(2) SERVICE AREA.—For the purpose of the de-
livery of Federal services to tribal members, the serv-
ice area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area 
comprised of King and Queen County, Caroline 
County, Essex County, Spotsylvania County, Stafford 
County, and Richmond County, Virginia. 
SEC. 404. MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS. 
The membership roll and governing documents of the 
Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and gov-
erning documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to 
the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 405. GOVERNING BODY. 
The governing body of the Tribe shall be— 
(1) the governing body of the Tribe in place as 
of the date of enactment of this Act; or 
(2) any subsequent governing body elected in ac-
cordance with the election procedures specified in the 
governing documents of the Tribe. 
SEC. 406. RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If, not later than 25 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe transfers to the Sec-
retary land within the boundaries of King and Queen 
County, Stafford County, Spotsylvania County, Richmond 
County, Essex County, and Caroline County, Virginia, the 
Secretary shall take the land into trust for the benefit of 
the Tribe. Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the 
Tribe pursuant to this 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. 
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SEC. 407. 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 V—MONACAN INDIAN 
NATION 
SEC. 501. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) In 1677, the Monacan Tribe signed the Trea-
ty of Middle Plantation between Charles II of Eng-
land and 12 Indian ‘‘Kings and Chief Men’’; 
(2) in 1722, in the Treaty of Albany, Governor 
Spotswood negotiated to save the Virginia Indians 
from extinction at the hands of the Iroquois; 
(3) specifically mentioned in the negotiations 
were the Monacan tribes of the Totero (Tutelo), 
Saponi, Ocheneeches (Occaneechi), Stengenocks, and 
Meipontskys; 
(4) in 1790, the first national census recorded 
Benjamin Evans and Robert Johns, both ancestors of 
the present Monacan community, listed as ‘‘white’’ 
with mulatto children; 
(5) in 1782, tax records also began for those fam-
ilies; 
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(6) in 1850, the United States census recorded 
29 families, mostly large, with Monacan surnames, 
the members of which are genealogically related to the 
present community; 
(7) in 1870, a log structure was built at the 
Bear Mountain Indian Mission; 
(8) in 1908, the structure became an Episcopal 
Mission and, as of the date of enactment of this Act, 
the structure is listed as a landmark on the National 
Register of Historic Places; 
(9) in 1920, 304 Amherst Indians were identi-
fied in the United States census; 
(10) from 1930 through 1931, numerous letters 
from Monacans to the Bureau of the Census resulted 
from the decision of Dr. Walter Plecker, former head 
of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State of Vir-
ginia, not to allow Indians to register as Indians for 
the 1930 census; 
(11) the Monacans eventually succeeded in being 
allowed to claim their race, albeit with an asterisk at-
tached to a note from Dr. Plecker stating that there 
were no Indians in Virginia; 
(12) in 1947, D’Arcy McNickle, a Salish Indian, 
saw some of the children at the Amherst Mission and 
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requested that the Cherokee Agency visit them because 
they appeared to be Indian; 
(13) that letter was forwarded to the Department 
of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Chicago, Illi-
nois; 
(14) Chief Jarrett Blythe of the Eastern Band of 
Cherokee did visit the Mission and wrote that he 
‘‘would be willing to accept these children in the 
Cherokee school’’; 
(15) in 1979, a Federal Coalition of Eastern Na-
tive Americans established the entity known as ‘‘Mon-
acan Co-operative Pottery’’ at the Amherst Mission; 
(16) some important pieces were produced at 
Monacan Co-operative Pottery, including a piece that 
was sold to the Smithsonian Institution; 
(17) the Mattaponi-Pamunkey-Monacan Consor-
tium, established in 1981, has since been organized as 
a nonprofit corporation that serves as a vehicle to ob-
tain funds for those Indian tribes from the Depart-
ment of Labor under Native American programs; 
(18) in 1989, the Monacan Tribe was recognized 
by the State of Virginia, which enabled the Tribe to 
apply for grants and participate in other programs; 
and 
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(19) in 1993, the Monacan Tribe received tax-ex-
empt status as a nonprofit corporation from the In-
ternal Revenue Service. 
SEC. 502. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(2) TRIBAL MEMBER.—The term ‘‘tribal mem-
ber’’ means— 
(A) an individual who is an enrolled mem-
ber of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of 
this Act; and 
(B) an individual who has been placed on 
the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance 
with this title. 
(3) TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means the Mona-
can Indian Nation. 
SEC. 503. FEDERAL RECOGNITION. 
(a) FEDERAL RECOGNITION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Federal recognition is ex-
tended to the Tribe. 
(2) APPLICABILITY OF LAWS.—All laws (includ-
ing regulations) of the United States of general appli-
cability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands 
of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 
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U.S.C. 461 et seq.)) that are not inconsistent with 
this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal 
members. 
(b) FEDERAL SERVICES AND BENEFITS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—On and after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members 
shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided 
by the Federal Government to federally recognized In-
dian tribes without regard to— 
(A) the existence of a reservation for the 
Tribe; or 
(B) the location of the residence of any trib-
al member on or near any Indian reservation. 
(2) SERVICE AREA.—For the purpose of the de-
livery of Federal services to tribal members, the serv-
ice area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area 
comprised of all land within 25 miles from the center 
of Amherst, Virginia. 
SEC. 504. MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS. 
The membership roll and governing documents of the 
Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and gov-
erning documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to 
the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 505. GOVERNING BODY. 
The governing body of the Tribe shall be— 
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(1) the governing body of the Tribe in place as 
of the date of enactment of this Act; or 
(2) any subsequent governing body elected in ac-
cordance with the election procedures specified in the 
governing documents of the Tribe. 
SEC. 506. RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If, not later than 25 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe transfers to the Sec-
retary any land within the boundaries of Amherst County, 
Virginia, the Secretary shall take the land into trust for 
the benefit of the Tribe. Any land taken into trust for the 
benefit of the Tribe pursuant to this subsection shall be con-
sidered 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. 507. 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. 
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TITLE VI—NANSEMOND INDIAN 
TRIBE 
SEC. 601. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) from 1607 until 1646, Nansemond Indians— 
(A) lived approximately 30 miles from 
Jamestown; and 
(B) were significantly involved in English- 
Indian affairs; 
(2) after 1646, there were 2 sections of 
Nansemonds in communication with each other, the 
Christianized Nansemonds in Norfolk County, who 
lived as citizens, and the traditionalist Nansemonds, 
who lived further west; 
(3) in 1638, according to an entry in a 17th cen-
tury sermon book still owned by the Chief’s family, a 
Norfolk County Englishman married a Nansemond 
woman; 
(4) that man and woman are lineal ancestors of 
all of members of the Nansemond Indian tribe alive 
as of the date of enactment of this Act, as are some 
of the traditionalist Nansemonds; 
(5) in 1669, the 2 Nansemond sections appeared 
in Virginia Colony’s census of Indian bowmen; 
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(6) in 1677, Nansemond Indians were signato-
ries to the Treaty of 1677 with the King of England; 
(7) in 1700 and 1704, the Nansemonds and other 
Virginia Indian tribes were prevented by Virginia 
Colony from making a separate peace with the Iro-
quois; 
(8) Virginia represented those Indian tribes in 
the final Treaty of Albany, 1722; 
(9) in 1711, a Nansemond boy attended the In-
dian School at the College of William and Mary; 
(10) in 1727, Norfolk County granted William 
Bass and his kinsmen the ‘‘Indian privileges’’ of 
clearing swamp land and bearing arms (which privi-
leges were forbidden to other nonwhites) because of 
their Nansemond ancestry, which meant that Bass 
and his kinsmen were original inhabitants of that 
land; 
(11) in 1742, Norfolk County issued a certificate 
of Nansemond descent to William Bass; 
(12) from the 1740s to the 1790s, the tradition-
alist section of the Nansemond tribe, 40 miles west of 
the Christianized Nansemonds, was dealing with res-
ervation land; 
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(13) the last surviving members of that section 
sold out in 1792 with the permission of the State of 
Virginia; 
(14) in 1797, Norfolk County issued a certificate 
stating that William Bass was of Indian and English 
descent, and that his Indian line of ancestry ran di-
rectly back to the early 18th century elder in a tradi-
tionalist section of Nansemonds on the reservation; 
(15) in 1833, Virginia enacted a law enabling 
people of European and Indian descent to obtain a 
special certificate of ancestry; 
(16) the law originated from the county in which 
Nansemonds lived, and mostly Nansemonds, with a 
few people from other counties, took advantage of the 
new law; 
(17) a Methodist mission established around 
1850 for Nansemonds is currently a standard Meth-
odist congregation with Nansemond members; 
(18) in 1901, Smithsonian anthropologist James 
Mooney— 
(A) visited the Nansemonds; and 
(B) completed a tribal census that counted 
61 households and was later published; 
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(19) in 1922, Nansemonds were given a special 
Indian school in the segregated school system of Nor-
folk County; 
(20) the school survived only a few years; 
(21) in 1928, University of Pennsylvania an-
thropologist Frank Speck published a book on modern 
Virginia Indians that included a section on the 
Nansemonds; and 
(22) the Nansemonds were organized formally, 
with elected officers, in 1984, and later applied for 
and received State recognition. 
SEC. 602. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(2) TRIBAL MEMBER.—The term ‘‘tribal mem-
ber’’ means— 
(A) an individual who is an enrolled mem-
ber of the Tribe as of the date of enactment of 
this Act; and 
(B) an individual who has been placed on 
the membership rolls of the Tribe in accordance 
with this title. 
(3) TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Tribe’’ means the 
Nansemond Indian Tribe. 
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SEC. 603. FEDERAL RECOGNITION. 
(a) FEDERAL RECOGNITION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Federal recognition is ex-
tended to the Tribe. 
(2) APPLICABILITY OF LAWS.—All laws (includ-
ing regulations) of the United States of general appli-
cability to Indians or nations, Indian tribes, or bands 
of Indians (including the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 
U.S.C. 461 et seq.)) that are not inconsistent with 
this title shall be applicable to the Tribe and tribal 
members. 
(b) FEDERAL SERVICES AND BENEFITS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—On and after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Tribe and tribal members 
shall be eligible for all services and benefits provided 
by the Federal Government to federally recognized In-
dian tribes without regard to— 
(A) the existence of a reservation for the 
Tribe; or 
(B) the location of the residence of any trib-
al member on or near any Indian reservation. 
(2) SERVICE AREA.—For the purpose of the de-
livery of Federal services to tribal members, the serv-
ice area of the Tribe shall be considered to be the area 
comprised of the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, New-
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port News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia 
Beach, Virginia. 
SEC. 604. MEMBERSHIP; GOVERNING DOCUMENTS. 
The membership roll and governing documents of the 
Tribe shall be the most recent membership roll and gov-
erning documents, respectively, submitted by the Tribe to 
the Secretary before the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 605. GOVERNING BODY. 
The governing body of the Tribe shall be— 
(1) the governing body of the Tribe in place as 
of the date of enactment of this Act; or 
(2) any subsequent governing body elected in ac-
cordance with the election procedures specified in the 
governing documents of the Tribe. 
SEC. 606. RESERVATION OF THE TRIBE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If, not later than 25 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Tribe transfers any land 
within the boundaries of the city of Suffolk, the city of 
Chesapeake, or Isle of Wight County, Virginia, the Sec-
retary shall take the land into trust for the benefit of the 
Tribe. Any land taken into trust for the benefit of the Tribe 
pursuant to this 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 
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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. 607. 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. 
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Union Calendar No. 73 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1294 
[Report No. 110–124] 
A BILL 
To extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy 
Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe— 
Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, 
the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan In-
dian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe. 
MAY 7, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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