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This bill, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2021, aims to clarify the rights of Native American tribes and their enterprises on tribal lands under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The key provisions of the bill are: 1) Amending the definition of "employer" in the NLRA to explicitly include Indian tribes, any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an Indian tribe, and located on Indian lands. 2) Defining "Indian Tribe" as any federally recognized tribe, band, nation, pueblo, or other organized group. 3) Defining "Indian" as any individual who is a member of an Indian tribe. 4) Defining "Indian lands" to include all lands within the limits of an Indian reservation, lands held in trust by the U.S. for the benefit of a tribe or individual, and lands in Oklahoma within the boundaries of a former reservation of a federally recognized tribe. The overall purpose of the bill is to exempt tribal enterprises on tribal lands from the jurisdiction of the NLRA, granting tribes greater sovereignty over labor relations on their own lands.

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