1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community is a federally recognized Indian Tribe residing on the L’Anse Indian Reservation in Baraga County in the Upper Peninsula of the State of Michigan; (2) the Community is a successor in interest to the Treaty with the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, made and concluded at La Pointe of Lake Superior October 4, 1842 (7 Stat. 591) (referred to in this section as the 1842 Treaty ), which, among other things, guaranteed the usufructuary rights of the Community over a large area of land that was ceded to the United States, until such time that those usufructuary rights were properly and legally extinguished; (3) the Community is also a successor in interest to the Treaty with the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, made and concluded at La Pointe September 30, 1854 (10 Stat. 1109) (referred to in this section as the 1854 Treaty ); (4) article 2, paragraph 1 of the 1854 Treaty created the L’Anse Indian Reservation as a permanent reservation; (5) pursuant to article 13 of the 1854 Treaty, the 1854 Treaty became obligatory on the contracting parties when ratified by the President and the Senate on January 10, 1855; (6) in 1850, Congress enacted the Act of September 28, 1850 (commonly known and referred to in this section as the Swamp Land Act ) (9 Stat. 519, chapter 84), which authorized the State of Arkansas and other States, including the State of Michigan, to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim certain unsold swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation and stating that those lands shall remain unsold at the passage of this act … . ; (7) following enactment of the Swamp Land Act, the State claimed thousands of acres of swamp land in the State pursuant to that Act