{"id":334035,"date":"2025-12-11T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=334035"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:37:49","slug":"audio-h-r-2916-a-bill-to-ratify-the-akwesasne-mohawk-land-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/12\/11\/audio-h-r-2916-a-bill-to-ratify-the-akwesasne-mohawk-land-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: H.R.2916, a bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_youtu-be\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cwoy8c4BSTc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/04\/maxresdefault-343.jpg\" alt=\"H.R.2916 - A bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cwoy8c4BSTc\">\n\t\t\tH.R.2916 &#8211; A bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cwoy8c4BSTc\">\n\t\t\t<p>The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.2916, a bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in New York, on December 9, 2025.Following considerati&#8230;<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/s\/desktop\/85a3164d\/img\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"YouTube\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tYouTube\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">AUDIO: H.R.2916, a bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Thursday, December 11, 2025<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/www.house.gov\/>U.S. House of Representatives<\/a> considers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/2389\">H.R.2916<\/a>, a bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim, on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cwoy8c4BSTc\">December 9, 2025<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe bill ratifies a land claim settlement between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srmt-nsn.gov\/\">St. Regis Mohawk Tribe<\/a> and the state of New York. The agreement  requires the return of about 3,500 acres of stolen land to the tribe.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nFollowing consideration, the bill was approved under a suspension of the rules.\r\n<img src=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/12\/HR2916.png width=0 height=0 class=invisible>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.2916, a bill to settle a land claim of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, on December 9, 2025.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[340,20,13,1,14],"tags":[5366,6488,48,476,992,34],"class_list":["post-334035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-h-r-2916","tag-house","tag-land-claims","tag-mohawk","tag-new-york","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1oTF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/12\/HR2916.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334049,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334035\/revisions\/334049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}