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In this Act: (1) Appropriate committees of Congress The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; (B) the Committee on Heath, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate; (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; (E) the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives; and (F) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. (2) Board The term Board means the Board of Trustees of the University established by section 8(a). (3) Contribution The term contribution means a monetary payment made by the University towards the health and retirement plans of an employee of the University. (4) Indian Tribe The term Indian Tribe means an Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary recognizes as an Indian Tribe pursuant to section 104(a) of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131(a)). (5) Indian Tribes of Kansas The term Indian Tribes of Kansas means— (A) the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; (B) the Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; (C) the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; and (D) the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. (6) ISDEAA terms The terms Indian and Tribal organization have the meanings given those terms in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). (7) Legacy institution The term legacy institution means the Haskell Indian Nations University, as operated by the Bureau of Indian Education before the date of enactment of this Act. (8) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (9) University Except as provided in section 2, the term University means the Haskell Indian Nations University, the federally chartered corporation established by section 5(a).