§ 585. — Membership rolls; preparation; eligibility for enrollment; application; finality of determination.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC585]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 585. Membership rolls; preparation; eligibility for
enrollment; application; finality of determination
For the purpose of apportioning the award in accordance with
sections 581 to 590 of this title, membership rolls, duly approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, shall be prepared for each of the three
groups, as follows:
(a) The governing body of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation and the governing body of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, each
shall, with the assistance of the Secretary, bring current the
membership rolls of their respective tribes, to include all persons born
prior to and alive on December 18, 1971, who are enrolled or eligible to
be enrolled in accordance with the membership requirements of their
respective tribes.
(b) The proposed roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians
entitled to participate in the distribution of the judgment funds shall
be prepared by the governing officers of said Northwestern Bands, with
the assistance of the Secretary of the Interior, within six months after
December 18, 1971, authorizing distribution of said funds. The roll
shall include all persons who meet all of the following requirements of
eligibility:
(1) They were born prior to and alive on December 18, 1971;
(2) Either their names appear on one of the following Indian
census rolls of the Washakie Sub-Agency of the Fort Hall
jurisdiction:
(a) Roll dated January 1, 1937, by F. A. Gross,
Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation.
(b) Roll dated January 1, 1940, by F. A. Gross,
Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation.
(c) Roll dated March 10, 1954.
(d) Roll dated April 21, 1964.
or they possess one-quarter Shoshone Indian blood and they are
descendants of those appearing on at least one of said rolls;
(3) They are not recognized as members of the Shoshone-Bannock
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind
River Reservation, or any other Indian Tribe; and
(4) They shall elect not to participate in any settlement of
claims pending before the Indian Claims Commission in docket 326-J,
Shoshone-Goshute, and docket 326-K, Western Shoshone.
The proposed roll shall be published in the Federal Register, and in a
newspaper of general circulation in the State of Utah. Any person
claiming membership rights in the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone
Indians, or any interest in said judgment funds, or a representative of
the Secretary on behalf of any such person, within sixty days from the
date of publication in the Federal Register, or in the newspaper of
general circulation, as hereinbefore provided, whichever publication
date is last, may file an appeal with the Secretary contesting the
inclusion or omission of the name of any person on or from such proposed
roll. The Secretary shall review such appeals, and his decision thereon
shall be final and conclusive. After disposition of all such appeals to
the Secretary, the roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians
shall be published in the Federal Register and such roll shall be final.
(Pub. L. 92-206, Sec. 5, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 737.)
References in Text
The Indian Claims Commission, referred to in par. (4), terminated
Sept. 30, 1978. See Codification note set out under former section 70 et
seq. of this title.
