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[CITE: 25USC1300d-1]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
SUBCHAPTER LXXV--MISSISSIPPI SIOUX TRIBES: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
                   Part A--1972 Distribution Authority
 
Sec. 1300d-1. Lower Council Sioux


(a) Membership rolls; applications

    The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and the Santee 
Sioux Tribe of Nebraska shall bring current their membership rolls as of 
October 25, 1972. The Lower Sioux Indian Community at Morton, Minnesota, 
the Prairie Island Indian Community at Welch, Minnesota, and the 
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota shall prepare rolls of 
their members who are lineal descendants of the Mdewakanton and 
Wahpakoota Tribes, and who were born on or prior to and are living on 
October 25, 1972, using available records and rolls at the local agency 
and area offices, and any other available records and rolls. 
Applications for enrollment must be filed with each group named in this 
section and such rolls shall be subject to approval of the Secretary of 
the Interior. The Secretary's determination on all applications shall be 
final.

(b) Roll of lineal descendants; applications

    The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of the lineal 
descendants of the Mdewakanton and Wahpakoota Tribe who were born on or 
prior to and are living on October 25, 1972, whose names or the names of 
a lineal ancestor appears on any available records and rolls acceptable 
to the Secretary, and who are not members of any of the organized groups 
listed in subsection (a) of this section. Applications for enrollment 
must be filed with the Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
Aberdeen, South Dakota. The Secretary's determination on all 
applications for enrollment shall be final.

(Pub. L. 92-555, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1168.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1300d-2 of this title.
