Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 2 DEFINITIONS In this Act: ####
(1)Restricted fee status The term “**restricted fee status**” means a status in which the Tribal land— #####
(A)shall continue to be owned by the Tribes; #####
(B)shall be part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and expressly made subject to the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the Oglala Sioux Tribe; #####
(C)shall not be transferred without the consent of Congress and the Tribes; #####
(D)shall not be subject to taxation by a State or local government; and #####
(E)shall not be subject to any provision of law providing for the review or approval by the Secretary of the Interior before the Tribes may use the land for any purpose as allowed by the document titled “Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe” and dated October 21, 2022, directly, or through agreement with another party. ####
(2)Secretary The term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior. ####
(3)Tribal land The term “**Tribal land**” means the approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally depicted as “Area of Interest” on the map entitled “Wounded Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land” and dated October 26, 2022, which is a segment of the December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre site. ####
(4)Tribes The term “**Tribes**” means the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, both tribes being among the constituent tribes of the Great Sioux Nation and signatories to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 between the United States of America and the Great Sioux Nation, 15 Stat. 635.
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