§ 339. — Tribes excepted from certain provisions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC339]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 9--ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS
Sec. 339. Tribes excepted from certain provisions
The provisions of this act shall not extend to the territory
occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and
Osage, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes, in Oklahoma, nor to any
of the reservations of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians in the
State of New York, nor to that strip of territory in the State of
Nebraska adjoining the Sioux Nation on the south added by Executive
order.
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, Sec. 8, 24 Stat. 391.)
References in Text
This act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, 24
Stat. 388, as amended, and is popularly known as the Indian General
Allotment Act. For classification of this act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 331 of this title and Tables.
Sacs and Foxes; Missouri Indians
No allotment of lands was to be made or annuities of money to be
paid to any of the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri Indians who were not
enrolled as members of the tribe on Jan. 1, 1890, by a proviso annexed
to act Feb. 28, 1891, ch. 383, Sec. 5, 26 Stat. 796.
