SRES 499
116th Congress
Senate
Native Americans
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history
Wisconsin
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".
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 13, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text: CR S1078)
Feb 13, 2020
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English 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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text: CR S1078)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1