25 U.S.C. § 408 — Surrender of allotments by relinquishment for benefit of children

This section applies when an Indian person owns an allotment of land, or any right, title, or interest in one. The Secretary of the Interior may, at their own discretion, let that person surrender (give up) the allotment or their interest in it. The surrender must follow whatever formal process the Secretary of the Interior sets. The person can only surrender the allotment for the benefit of one of their own children — but only a child who has not already received an allotment of land. Once the surrender happens, the Secretary of the Interior must allot that same land to the child or children. The land carries over all the same conditions that applied to it before the surrender.