25 U.S.C. § 5501 — Submarginal lands of United States held in trust for specified Indian tribes
submitted 51 years ago by Pub. L. 94-114 to r/title-25-INDIANS · 585 words · no verdicts yet
The United States holds specified submarginal lands, improvements, and underlying minerals in trust for named tribes, and generally adds the lands to their reservations. The law preserves specified project rights and existing rights, excludes certain Missouri River Basin project lands from the conveyance, and separately covers lands for the Ramah Navajo and Mississippi Choctaw Indians.
(a) Declaration; addition to reservations. Except as provided below, the United States declares that all its right, title, and interest in land and existing improvements acquired under the listed recovery and relief laws, and now administered by the Interior Secretary* for the tribes named in section 5502(a), are held in trust for those tribes. All minerals under that land are included, whether acquired under those laws or otherwise owned by the United States. Except for the Cherokee Nation, the land becomes part of each tribe's previously established reservation.
(b) Conditions and excluded lands. The conveyed property remains subject to the taking or disposition of land or interests within South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation authorized by sections 441j through 441o of title 16. The United States also reserves the right to prohibit or limit improvements or structures on, and to flood or otherwise use, sections 25 and 26, township 48 north, range 3 west, at Odanah, Wisconsin, for the Bad River flood-control project under the cited 1958 law. The chapter does not convey title to land or an interest that, before October 17, 1975, had been included in an authorized Missouri River Basin water-resources project. Those lands must instead be treated as former trust lands.
(c) Additional lands. The United States declares that land and existing improvements acquired under title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act and later Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts, plus all underlying minerals, are held in trust for the tribes for whose benefit the Interior Secretary administers them. Land administered for the Ramah Navajo Indians is held in trust for the Ramah Band of the Navajo Tribe. Land administered for Mississippi Choctaw Indians, except land subject to the Act of June 21, 1939, is held in trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Valid recorded rights-of-way are excluded.
Except as hereinafter provided, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States of America in all of the land, and the improvements now thereon, that was acquired under title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), and section 55 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 781), and that are now administered by the Secretary* of the Interior for the use or benefit of the Indian tribes identified in section 5502(a) of this title, together with all minerals underlying any such land whether acquired pursuant to such Acts or otherwise owned by the United States, are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for each of said tribes, and (except in the case of the Cherokee Nation) shall be a part of the reservations heretofore established for each of said tribes.
The property conveyed by this chapter shall be subject to the appropriation or disposition of any of the lands, or interests therein, within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, as authorized by sections 441j to 441o of title 16, and subject to a reservation in the United States of a right to prohibit or restrict improvements or structures on, and to continuously or intermittently inundate or otherwise use, lands in sections 25 and 26, township 48 north, range 3 west, at Odanah, Wisconsin, in connection with the Bad River flood control project as authorized by section 203 of the Act of July 3, 1958 (72 Stat. 297, 311): Provided, That this chapter shall not convey the title to any part of the lands or any interest therein that prior to October 17, 1975, have been included in the authorized water resources development projects in the Missouri River Basin as authorized by section 203 of the Act of July 3, 1958 (72 Stat. 297, 311), as amended and supplemented: Provided further, That such lands included in Missouri River Basin projects shall be treated as former trust lands are treated.
The right, title, and interest of the United States of America in all of the lands, including the improvements now thereon (title to which is in the United States), acquired under title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), and any subsequent Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts, including but not limited to section 5 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 927, 930) and section 4 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941 (54 Stat. 611, 617), together with all minerals underlying any such land whether acquired pursuant to such Acts or otherwise owned by the United States, and which lands are now administered by the Secretary of the Interior for the use or benefit of (1) Ramah Navajo Indians, are hereby declared to be held in trust for the Ramah Band of the Navajo Tribe, and (2) Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, except lands subject to the Act of June 21, 1939 (53 Stat. 851), are hereby declared to be held in trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; excepting valid rights-of-way of record.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–114, § 1, Oct. 17, 1975, 89 Stat. 577; Pub. L. 97–434, § 1(a), Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2280.)
- 1975Enacted · Pub. L. 94-114 · 89 Stat. 577
- 1983Amended · Pub. L. 97-434 · 96 Stat. 2280
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