1. Short title This Act may be cited as the The Prairie Island Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) The members of the Prairie Island Indian Community and their ancestors have occupied what is now northern Iowa and Minnesota since long before European contact, and their ancestors were present to greet the first French explorers and traders who entered the Upper Mississippi watershed. (2) The Tribe’s Reservation is located on an island called Prairie Island on the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota, and was acquired in trust by the Secretary for the Tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (Act of June 18, 1934, Ch. 576, 48 Stat. 984), to serve as the Tribe’s permanent homeland. (3) In 1938, the Army Corps of Engineers located and constructed Lock and Dam No. 3 on the Upper Mississippi River less than two miles downstream from the Prairie Island Reservation. (4) The operation of Lock and Dam No. 3 caused permanent inundation of land on the Prairie Island Reservation, as well as ongoing overbank flooding of Reservation land, much of which lies within the Mississippi River 100-year flood plain. (5) The flooding of a significant portion of the Prairie Island Reservation occurred without express Congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution and the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act, (section 2116 of the Revised Statutes