24.4.1.010 Findings

(a) In 1951 the Pueblo de San Ildefonso filed suit against the United States before the Indian Claims Commission, which was styled Pueblo de San Ildefonso v. United States, Docket No. 354.

(b) The Pueblo settled that claim on terms described in Public Law 109-286, enacted 2006, which among other terms authorized the Pueblo to purchase lands from the Forest Service designated "Settlement Area Lands", which includes over 7,000 acres, using some of the funds paid by the United States to settle its liability to the Pueblo under Docket 354.

(c) In 2004, the San Ildefonso-Santa Clara Land Agreement was signed by both Pueblos.

(d) That two Pueblo land agreement approved an aboriginal boundary line between the two Pueblos in the Settlement Area Lands.

(e) The Pueblo de San Ildefonso agreed to sell lands north of that aboriginal boundary to Santa Clara Pueblo.

(f) The Pueblo owns two tracts of land north of that boundary between the two Pueblos, namely the "Miller Property" acquired by gift from the Estate of Henrietta Meyers Miller consisting of approximately 18 acres, and the portion of the Settlement Area Lands north of the aboriginal boundary between the two Pueblos, consisting of approximately 185 acres.

(g) The 2004 Agreement between the two Pueblos provided that the price of this land sale will use the formula described in what became Public Law 109-286.

(h) The purchase price for the two properties from the Pueblo should be no less than $102,738.85.

(i) A Warranty Deed to the Miller Property and a Quitclaim Deed to the Settlement Area Lands north of the boundary between the two Pueblos are attachments 1 and 2 to this resolution.