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§445a Rights and Privileges of Navajo Indians in Canyons

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXI— NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 445a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Keeps Navajo Tribe's land and mineral ownership and surface use, including oil and gas, intact except as in section 445b. Gives the tribe priority, under Secretary of the Interior rules, to provide riding animals to monument visitors.

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Title 16, §445a

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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.

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Herein, referred to in text, means act Feb. 14, 1931, which is classified to sections 445 to 445b of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

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16 U.S.C. § 445a

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60