§ 601. — Membership roll; preparation; persons entitled to enrollment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC601]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XVII--YAKIMA TRIBES
Sec. 601. Membership roll; preparation; persons entitled to
enrollment
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, with the
advice and consent of the Yakima Tribal Council, to prepare a roll
showing the members of the Yakima Tribes living on August 9, 1946, which
roll shall be kept current and shall constitute the official membership
roll of the Yakima Tribes for all purposes. No person who is enrolled
with any other tribe of Indians or who has received an allotment of land
on any other reservation shall be enrolled under the provisions of this
subchapter. The following shall be placed on the roll:
(a) All living persons who received allotments on the Yakima
Reservation, except by fraud.
(b) All living persons who are of the blood of the fourteen original
Yakima Tribes, parties to the treaty of June 9, 1855 (12 Stat. 951), and
who have received allotments on the public domain within the area ceded
to the United States by the Yakima Tribes by the treaty of 1855.
(c) All living persons who have maintained a domicile continuously
from January 1, 1941, until August 9, 1946, on the Yakima Reservation or
within the area ceded by the treaty of June 9, 1855, (12 Stat. 951), and
who are (1) descendants of persons who received allotments on the Yakima
Reservation, except by fraud, or (2) descendants of persons of the blood
of the fourteen original Yakima Tribes who received allotments on the
public domain within the area ceded by the said treaty of 1855. All
living children born after January 1, 1941, but prior to August 9, 1946,
to a person entitled to enrollment under this subsection shall likewise
be entitled to enrollment under this subsection.
(d) All children of one-fourth or more blood of the Yakima Tribes
born after August 9, 1946, to a parent who is an enrolled member and
maintains a domicile on the Yakima Reservation or within the area ceded
by the treaty of June 9, 1855, at the time of the birth of the child.
(Aug. 9, 1946, ch. 933, Sec. 1, 60 Stat. 968.)
Redesignation of Yakima Indian Nation to Yakama Indian Nation
Pub. L. 103-435, Sec. 17, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4573, provided
that:
``(a) Redesignation.--The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakima Indian Nation shall be known and designated as the `Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation'.
``(b) References.--Any reference in a law (including any
regulation), map, document, paper, or other record of the United States
to Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation referred to
in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation'.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 602 of this title.
