WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Bryan Mercier, director of the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, from a Sept. 23, 2026, hearing on legislation affecting tribal nations.

The legislation includes the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Parity Act (S. 1750), Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act (H.R. 226), legislation to take land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of . . .

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