Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Federal Recognition Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5327 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5327 To extend Federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 11, 2025 Ms. McClellan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To extend Federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Federal Recognition Act''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Federal recognition. Sec. 5. Membership; governing documents. Sec. 6. Governing body. Sec. 7. Reservation of the Tribe. Sec. 8. Gaming. Sec. 9. Hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, and water rights. Sec. 10. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) 1586: Ralph Lane, leader of the Colony at Roanoke (Virginia), documented his engagement with Iroquois nations of Nottoways, Meherrin, and Tuscarora Indians--collectively referred to by the Algonquian term Mangoaks, (also known as Mangoags)--reporting that they possessed a ``. . . great quantity of copper.''. (2) 1609: In search of information concerning the ``Lost Colony'' of Virginia, Nathaniel Powell and Anas Todkill were led to the Mangoaks for information. (3) 1612: Oxford University press published the first detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay and what is now Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and th