1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Deploying the Internet by Guaranteeing Indian Tribes Autonomy over Licensing on Reservations Act or the DIGITAL Reservations Act . 2. Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Sec. 3. Findings and purposes. Sec. 4. Indian Tribes’ and Native Hawaiian organizations’ exclusive right to all available or unlicensed electromagnetic spectrum over Tribal lands. Sec. 5. Access to spectrum over Tribal lands. Sec. 6. Existing spectrum licenses and spectrum over Tribal lands. Sec. 7. Tribal Broadband Fund. Sec. 8. Directing the Commission to engage in rulemaking proceedings for broadband development on Tribal lands. Sec. 9. Technical assistance for spectrum management, contractual agreements, and procedural requirements. Sec. 10. Annual reporting requirements. Sec. 11. Definitions. 3. Findings and purposes (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Indian Tribes are sovereign nations that are independent and legally distinct political bodies that exercise self-governance with the inherent power to control their internal relations including natural resource development and management of assets, including spectrum over Tribal lands. (2) This longstanding precedent established territorial sovereignty through distinct and separate jurisdictions in which Indian Tribes retain their sovereign power to control their internal relations and protect Tribal self-governance within designated Tribal lands or reservations. (3) Tribal lands were established during the Allotment or Reservation era of Federal Indian law and policy (1871–1928) when the Federal Government significantly narrowed the control and rights of Indian Tribes through the unilateral acquisition of Tribal lands and resources, then subsequently gave the rights to this property to non-Indian settlers. (4) Under the General Allotment Act of 1887, Tribal members were forced to surrender their previously undivided interest in Tribally owned trust estate