Legislative Hearing: Hearing on H.R. 3477 and H.R. 3599

Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Time: 02:30 PM Location: Longworth House Office Building 1324

On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, at 2:30 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on the following bills:

  • H.R. 3477 (Rep. Markwayne Mullin), To enhance and integrate Native American tourism, empower Native American communities, increase coordination and collaboration between Federal tourism assets, and expand heritage and cultural tourism opportunities in the United States. “The Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act”; and
  • H.R. 3599 (Rep. Chuck Fleischmann), To take certain Federal lands in Tennessee into trust for the benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes. “Eastern Band Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act.”

Witnesses

  1. Ms. Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes
    Deputy Assistant Secretary
    Indian Affairs for Policy and Economic Development
    U.S. Department of the Interior , Washington, D.C.
  2. The Honorable Bill Anoatubby
    Governor
    The Chickasaw Nation
    Ada, OK
  3. The Honorable Patrick Lambert
    Principal Chief
    Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
    Cherokee, NC
  4. Ms. Sherry L. Rupert
    President of the Board
    American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association
    Albuquerque, NM