Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds that— in 1889, Congress enacted the North Dakota Enabling Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States ; section 10 of the North Dakota Enabling Act (25 Stat. 679, chapter 180)— with certain exceptions, granted sections 16 and 36 in every township to the new States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington for the support of common schools ; and in cases where portions of sections 16 and 36 had been reserved, granted, or sold prior to those States attaining statehood, authorized indemnity or in lieu selections; the State of North Dakota was granted land and minerals totaling more than 2,500,000 acres under the North Dakota Enabling Act; the North Dakota Enabling Act provided further land grants to the State of North Dakota for the support of colleges, universities, the State capitol, and other public institutions; prior to the enactment of the North Dakota Enabling Act, the United States, through treaties and Executive orders, including the Treaty between the United States of America and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and other Tribal Nations, made and concluded at Fort Laramie September 17, 1851 (11 Stat. 749), the Treaty between the United States of America and the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, made and concluded at Washington February 19, 1867 (15 Stat. 505), the Treaty between the United States of America and different Tribes of Sioux Indians, made and concluded at Fort Laramie April 29, 1868 (15 Stat. 635), and the Executive order of April 12, 1870, established several reservations of land for multiple Indian Tribes located in the State of North Dakota; established in 1960, the Little Missouri National Grasslands— occupies more than 1,028,000 acres of land in western North Dakota; and encompasses approximately 108,840 surface acres and 149,073 mineral acres of State land grant parcels within its boundaries; authorizing the State to relinquish the State land grant parcels located within the reservations and the Grasslands and to select other Federal land or minerals in lieu of the relinquished State land grant parcels will— fulfill the promise of land and minerals to the State; provide to Indian Tribes greater Tribal sovereignty and control of land and minerals within the reservations; and provide for greater conservation and preservation of the Grasslands; and Congress should authorize the State— to relinquish the land and minerals located within the reservations and the Grasslands; and to select in lieu of the relinquished land other Federal land or minerals in the State of North Dakota of equal value.
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