Sec. 9. Definitions
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Title I of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 52 U.S.C. 10301 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: In this Act: The term Indian lands means— any Indian country of the Indian Tribe, as defined in section 1151 of title 18, United States Code; any land in Alaska that is owned, pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), by an Indian Tribe that is a Native village (as defined in section 3 of that Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1602 )) or by a Village Corporation that is associated with the Indian Tribe (as defined in section 3 of that Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1602 )); any land on which the seat of government of the Indian Tribe is located; and any land that is part or all of a Tribal designated statistical area associated with the Indian Tribe, or is part or all of an Alaska Native village statistical area associated with the Tribe, as defined by the Bureau of the Census for the purposes of the most recent decennial census.
The term Indian Tribe or Tribe means any American Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as a federally recognized Indian Tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 5130 et seq.). The term voting-age population means the numerical size of the population within a State, within a political subdivision, or within a political subdivision that contains Indian lands, as the case may be, that consists of persons age 18 or older, as calculated by the Bureau of the Census under the most recent decennial census. .
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