§ 177. — Purchases or grants of lands from Indians.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC177]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF INDIANS
Sec. 177. Purchases or grants of lands from Indians
No purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any
title or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of Indians,
shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the same be made by
treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the Constitution. Every
person who, not being employed under the authority of the United States,
attempts to negotiate such treaty or convention, directly or indirectly,
or to treat with any such nation or tribe of Indians for the title or
purchase of any lands by them held or claimed, is liable to a penalty of
$1,000. The agent of any State who may be present at any treaty held
with Indians under the authority of the United States, in the presence
and with the approbation of the commissioner of the United States
appointed to hold the same, may, however, propose to, and adjust with,
the Indians the compensation to be made for their claim to lands within
such State, which shall be extinguished by treaty.
(R.S. Sec. 2116.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2116 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, Sec. 12, 4
Stat. 730.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 941k, 1724, 1757, 1772c,
1774f, 1779c, 1779f of this title.
