16 U.S.C. § 445a — Rights and privileges of Navajo Indians in canyons

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This law protects the Navajo Tribe's existing rights to land and minerals in the canyons. It preserves their farming, grazing, and other traditional uses. It also gives them the preferred right to provide horses for monument visitors.

Nothing in this part of the law takes away the Navajo Tribe of Indians' current right, title, and interest in the lands and minerals -- including oil and gas -- that they already own and hold. This includes their right to use the surface of that land for farming, grazing, and other purposes, except as limited by section 445b of this title. The Navajo Tribe is also given a preferential right -- meaning first choice -- to provide riding animals for visitors to the monument. The Secretary of the Interior sets the regulations that govern this.

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Nothing herein shall be construed as in any way impairing the right, title, and interest of the Navajo Tribe of Indians which they now have and hold to all lands and minerals, including oil and gas, and the surface use of such lands for agricultural, grazing, and other purposes, except as defined in section 445b of this title; and the said tribe of Indians is granted the preferential right, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, of furnishing riding animals for the use of visitors to the monument.

Source credit: (Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 2, 46 Stat. 1161.)

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1931Enacted · Act of Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188 · 46 Stat. 1161

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