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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 601. Membership roll; preparation; persons entitled to enrollment
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, with
the advice and consent of the Yakima Tribal Council, to prepare a
roll showing the members of the Yakima Tribes living on August 9,
1946, which roll shall be kept current and shall constitute the
official membership roll of the Yakima Tribes for all purposes. No
person who is enrolled with any other tribe of Indians or who has
received an allotment of land on any other reservation shall be
enrolled under the provisions of this subchapter. The following
shall be placed on the roll:
(a) All living persons who received allotments on the Yakima
Reservation, except by fraud.
(b) All living persons who are of the blood of the fourteen
original Yakima Tribes, parties to the treaty of June 9, 1855 (12
Stat. 951), and who have received allotments on the public domain
within the area ceded to the United States by the Yakima Tribes by
the treaty of 1855.
(c) All living persons who have maintained a domicile
continuously from January 1, 1941, until August 9, 1946, on the
Yakima Reservation or within the area ceded by the treaty of June
9, 1855, (12 Stat. 951), and who are (1) descendants of persons who
received allotments on the Yakima Reservation, except by fraud, or
(2) descendants of persons of the blood of the fourteen original
Yakima Tribes who received allotments on the public domain within
the area ceded by the said treaty of 1855. All living children born
after January 1, 1941, but prior to August 9, 1946, to a person
entitled to enrollment under this subsection shall likewise be
entitled to enrollment under this subsection.
(d) All children of one-fourth or more blood of the Yakima Tribes
born after August 9, 1946, to a parent who is an enrolled member
and maintains a domicile on the Yakima Reservation or within the
area ceded by the treaty of June 9, 1855, at the time of the birth
of the child.
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