{"id":335782,"date":"2025-12-12T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=335782"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:20:16","slug":"video-h-r-2916-a-bill-to-ratify-the-akwesasne-mohawk-land-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/12\/12\/video-h-r-2916-a-bill-to-ratify-the-akwesasne-mohawk-land-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: H.R.2916, a bill to ratify the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"The <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\/fHtOfwzEMf8\">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>, the state of New York and other parties. The agreement requires the return of about 3,500 acres of stolen land to the tribe.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;This historic settlement provides long-term certainty and remedies in terms of lands, land acquisition, payment of past property taxes, and will greatly benefit our North Country community,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanik.house.gov\/\">Rep. Elise Stefanik<\/a> (R-New York), the sponsor of H.R.2916.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;For the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, today&#8217;s action represents the resolution of a generations-long fight \u200aand finalizing this settlement allows the tribe to restore portions of their homeland, strengthen self-governance, and expand economic opportunities for the North Country,&#8221; said Stefanik.\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\/13\/HR2916.jpg 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":335783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-video-entry.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,1,14,334],"tags":[5366,5655,6488,48,476,992,34],"class_list":["post-335782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-119th","tag-elise-stefanik","tag-h-r-2916","tag-house","tag-land-claims","tag-mohawk","tag-new-york","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13\/HR2916.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1plQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335782","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=335782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338908,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335782\/revisions\/338908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}