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[CITE: 25USC1300d-3]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
SUBCHAPTER LXXV--MISSISSIPPI SIOUX TRIBES: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
                   Part A--1972 Distribution Authority
 
Sec. 1300d-3. Upper Council Sioux


(a) Membership rolls; applications

    The Devils Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, and the Sisseton and 
Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, shall bring current their 
membership rolls of October 25, 1972. The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes 
of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, shall prepare rolls of their 
members who are lineal descendants of the Sisseton and Wahpeton 
Mississippi Sioux Tribe, who were born on or prior to and are living on 
October 25, 1972, and who are entitled to enrollment on their respective 
membership rolls in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations 
of the tribe or group involved, 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 for enrollment shall be final.

(b) Roll of lineal descendants; applications

    Subject to the Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution 
Act of 1998 [25 U.S.C. 1300d-21 et seq.], the Secretary of the Interior 
shall prepare a roll of the lineal descendants of the Sisseton and 
Wahpeton Mississippi Sioux Tribe who were born on or prior to and are 
living on October 25, 1972, whose names or the name 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 II, Sec. 201, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1169; Pub. 
L. 105-387, Sec. 7(d)(2), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3475.)

                       References in Text

    The Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 1998, 
referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 105-387, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 
3471, which is classified principally to part B (Sec. 1300d-21 et seq.) 
of this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, 
see Short Title note set out under section 1300d of this title and 
Tables.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-387 substituted ``Subject to the 
Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 1998, the 
Secretary'' for ``The Secretary''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1300d-4, 1300d-26 of this 
title.
