; (16) the Community made claims to the Department of the Interior with respect to the Reservation Swamp Lands and the Reservation Canal Lands, providing legal analysis and ethnohistorical support for those claims; (17) in December 2021, the Department of the Interior stated that We have carefully reviewed pertinent documents, including the Tribe’s expert reports, and have determined that the Tribe’s claims to the Swamp Lands and Canal Lands have merit ; (18) the United States, through the actions of the General Land Office, deprived the Community of the exclusive use and occupancy of the Reservation Swamp Lands and the Reservation Canal Lands within the Reservation, without just compensation as required under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; (19) the loss of the Reservation Swamp Lands and the Reservation Canal Lands without just compensation has— (A) impacted the exercise by the Community of cultural, religious, and subsistence rights on the land; (B) caused a harmful disconnect between the Community and its land; (C) impacted the ability of the Community to fully exercise its economy within the Reservation; and (D) had a negative economic impact on the development of the economy of the Community; (20) certain non-Indian individuals, entities, and local governments occupy land within the boundaries of the Reservation— (A) acquired ownership interests in the Reservation Swamp Lands and the Reservation Canal Lands in good faith; and (B) have an interest in possessing clear title to that land; (21) this Act allows the United States— (A) to secure a fair and equitable settlement of past inequities suffered by the Community as a result of the actions of the United States that caused the taking of the Reservation Swamp Lands and the Reservation Canal Lands without just compensation