US SR499 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress

US Congress Senate Resolution 499 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 13 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text: CR S1078)
Pending: Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

This resolution acknowledges the extreme hardship, violence, and maltreatment inflicted on the Potawatomi people by the United States through the forcible removal of the tribe from their homeland east of the Mississippi River. The resolution also recognizes (1) the special legal and political relationship that Indian tribes have with the United States, and (2) the solemn covenant that the Potawatomi people share with the land.

Title

A resolution acknowledging the reprehensible policy of the United States regarding the forced relocation of the Potawatomi people from their homeland east of the Mississippi River to Kansas and Oklahoma and the devastating hardships the Potawatomi people endured during the march west, known as the "Potawatomi Trail of Death".

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-13	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text: CR S1078)

Subjects

Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Native Americans
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history
Wisconsin

US Congress State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/499/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/sres499/BILLS-116sres499is.pdf