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A. The people of the Osage Nation have expressed a desire to increase the land base of the Osage Nation and repurchase land that was allotted in 1906 and is being offered for sale through the Bureau of Indian Affairs in order to strengthen our sovereignty;

B. Since allotment, nearly ninety percent (90%) of the Osage Reservation surface land has left Osage ownership. In the last ten (10) years over ten thousand (10,000) acres of restricted property has been alienated from Osage ownership;

C. History has shown that the property owned in common by the Osage People is the property most likely to remain in Osage hands;

D. Therefore, the Osage Nation wishes to reverse the trend of diminishing Osage ownership within the Osage Nation, and to make purchases of restricted real estate to increase the size of the surface land held by the Osage Nation for the benefit of the Osage people; and

E. The Osage Nation Congress finds that the Nation should place a high priority on the purchase of restricted property within the geographical boundaries of Osage County, Oklahoma. ONCA 11-67, eff. Oct. 11, 2011.