25 U.S.C. § 5118: Application generally

Summary

Most of the Act does not apply to U.S. territories, colonies, or insular possessions, but sections 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16 do apply to Alaska. Sections 4, 7, 16, 17, and 18 do not apply to a group of named Oklahoma tribes and their members (including Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and others). Section 4 also does not apply to the Indians of the Klamath Reservation in Oregon.

Title 25, §5118

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The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any of the Territories, colonies, or insular possessions of the United States, except that section 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16 [25 U.S.C. 5112, 5113, 5115, 5116, 5123] shall apply to the Territory of Alaska: Provided, That section 4, 7, 16, 17, and 18 of this Act [25 U.S.C. 5107, 5110, 5123, 5124, 5125] shall not apply to the following-named Indian tribes, the members of such Indian tribes, together with members of other tribes affiliated with such named tribes located in the State of Oklahoma, as follows: Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, Delaware, Wichita, Osage, Kaw, Otoe, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Ponca, Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, Wyandotte, Iowa, Sac and Fox, Kickapoo, Pottawatomi, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. section 4 of this Act [25 U.S.C. 5107] shall not apply to the Indians of the Klamath Reservation in Oregon.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 18, 1934, ch. 576, 48 Stat. 984, popularly known as the Indian Reorganization Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 5101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 473 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–301 substituted “section 4,” for “section 2, 4,” in proviso.

Executive Documents

Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§5118 Application Generally