Indian lands definition

Indian lands means lands owned by the United States and held for the use or benefit of Indian tribes or bands or individ- ual Indians and lands within the boundaries of a federally recog- nized reservation that are owned by Indian tribes or bands or indi- vidual Indians.

Indian lands means all lands, including, but not limited to, mineral interests and rights-of-way, within the exterior boundaries of any federal Indian reservation, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, including mineral interests held in trust for or supervised by any Indian tribe.

Indian lands means lands of Indian tribes, or Indian individuals, which are either held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States, except for subsurface in- terests not owned or controlled by an Indian tribe or Indian individual.

Examples of Indian lands in a sentence

• No agreement or contract with an Indian tribe that encumbers Indian lands for a period of 7 or more years shall be valid unless that agreement or contract bears the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or a designee of the Secretary.

• Land that is owned by any person, entity, or Tribe, within the external borders of such Indian lands.

• Dependent Indian Communities refers to a limited category of Indian lands that are neither reservation or trust lands that satisfy the following two requirements: (1) they are set aside by the federal government for the use as Indian land and, (2) they must be under federal superintendence.

• Bureau of Indian Affairs: Coordi- nation of activities affecting Indian lands; assistance in identifying Indian tribal government officials.

• Projects eligible for Indian em- ployment preference consideration are projects located on roads within or pro- viding access to an Indian reservation or other Indian lands as defined under the term ‘‘Indian Reservation Roads’’ in 23 U.S.C. 101 and regulations issued thereunder.

More Definitions of Indian lands

Indian lands. ’ means any lands or inter- est in lands of an Indian tribe or an Indian al- lottee held in trust by the United States or which is subject to Federal restriction against alienation or which is administered by the United States pursuant to section 1613(g) of title 43, including mineral resources and min- eral estates reserved to an Indian tribe or an Indian allottee in the conveyance of a surface or nonmineral estate, except that such term does not include any lands subject to the pro- visions of section 3 of the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539);

Indian lands means all lands, including mineral interests, within the exterior boundaries of any Federal Indian reservation, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights- of-way, and all lands including mineral interests held in trust for or supervised by an Indian tribe;

Indian lands means Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151.

Indian lands. ’ means any lands or inter-

Indian lands means all lands under the jurisdiction or control of an Indian tribe.

Indian lands. ’ means any lands or interest in lands of an Indian tribe or an Indian allottee held in trust by the United States or which is subject to Federal restriction against alienation or which is administered by the United States pur- suant to section 14(g) of Public Law 92–203, as amended, in- cluding mineral resources and mineral estates reserved to an Indian tribe or an Indian allottee in the conveyance of a sur- face or nonmineral estate, except that such term does not in- clude any lands subject to the provisions of section 3 of the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539);

Indian lands means any lands or interest in lands of an