PUBLIC LAW 103-454—NOV. 2, 1994 108 STAT. 4791 Public Law 103-454 103d Congress An Act To provide for the annual publication of a list ofederallyrecognized Indian tribes, Nov. 2, 1994 and for other purposes. [H.R. 4180] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I—WITHDRAWAL OF gSd ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OR RECOGNITION Ki^S""^"' SEC. 101. SHORT TrnJB. 25 USC 479a This title may be cited as the Tederally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994". SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 26 USC 479a. For the purposes of this title: (1) The term **Secretary* means the Secretary of the Interior. (2) The term Indian tribe" means any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe. (3) The term **]i8ir means the list of recognized tribes published by the Seoi^tary pursuant to section 104 of this title. SEC. lOa. FINDINGS. 25 USC 479a The Congress finds that— (1) the Constitution, as interpreted by Federal case law, invests Congress with plenary authority over Indian Affairs; (2) ancillary to that authority, the United States has a trust responsibility to recogmzed Indian tribes, maintains a government-to-government relationship with those tribes, and recognizes the sovereignty of those tribes; (3) Indian tribes presently may be recognized by Act of Congress; by the adimnistrative procedures set forth in part 83 of the Code of Fedtyal Emulations denominated Trocedures for Establishing that an American Indian Group Exists as an Indian Tribe;" or by a decision of a United States court; (4) a tribe wMcb has been recognized in one of these manners may not be terminated except by an Act of Congress; (5) Congress has eiq)ressly repudiated the jpolicy of terminating recognized Indism tribes, and has actively sought to restore recognition to tribes that previously have been terminated;
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