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 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;

Examples of Indian lands in a sentence

  • Except for Gaming Activity conducted pursuant to this Compact, criminal jurisdiction to enforce the State’s gambling laws on the Tribe’s Indian lands, and to adjudicate alleged violations thereof, is hereby transferred to the State pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1166(d).

  • Except as provided below, all state and local law enforcement agencies and state courts shall exercise jurisdiction to enforce the State’s criminal laws on the Tribe’s Indian lands, including the Gaming Facility and all related structures, in the same manner and to the same extent, and subject to the same restraints and limitations, imposed by the laws of the State and the United States, as is exercised by state and local law enforcement agencies and state courts elsewhere in the state.

  • The purpose of the part is to provide procedures for approval, implementa- tion and administration of delegations of authority, cooperative agreements and contracts for inspection, enforce- ment and investigative activities re- lated to oil and gas production oper- ations on Federal and Indian lands under the provisions of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).

  • No lease, assignment thereof, or interest therein, will be approved to any employee or employees of the United States Government whether connected with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or otherwise, and no employee of the Interior Department shall be permitted to acquire any interest in any mineral lease covering restricted Indian lands by ownership of stock in corporations having such leases or in any other manner.

  • The Tribe may establish and operate not more than two Gaming Facilities, and only on those Indian lands on which gaming may lawfully be conducted under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.


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 any lands or inter-
Indian lands means that term as defined in 25 USC 2703.
Indian lands means any of the following:
Indian lands means Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151.
Indian lands means (1) All land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and including rights-of-way running throughout the reservation;
Indian lands means all lands under the jurisdiction or control of an Indian tribe.