Definitions

Title I of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10301) is amended by adding at the end the following: 21. Definitions In this Act: (1) Indian The term Indian has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. (2) Indian lands The term Indian lands means— (A) any Indian country of an Indian tribe, as such term is defined in section 1151 of title 18, United States Code; (B) any land in Alaska that is owned, pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, by an Indian tribe that is a Native village (as such term is defined in section 3 of such Act), or by a Village Corporation that is associated with the Indian tribe (as such term is defined in section 3 of such Act); (C) any land on which the seat of government of the Indian tribe is located; and (D) any land that is part or all of a tribal designated statistical area associated with the Indian tribe, or is part or all of an Alaska Native village statistical area associated with the tribe, as defined by the Bureau of the Census for the purposes of the most recent decennial census. (3) Indian tribe The term Indian tribe or tribe has the meaning given the term Indian tribe in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. (4) Tribal Government The term Tribal Government means the recognized governing body of an Indian Tribe. (5) Voting-age population The term voting-age population means the numerical size of the population within a State, within a political subdivision, or within a political subdivision that contains Indian lands, as the case may be, that consists of persons age 18 or older, as calculated by the Bureau of the Census under the most recent decennial census..