U.S. Code as of: 01/02/2006
Section 71. Future treaties with Indian tribes

      No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United
    States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent
    nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by
    treaty; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified
    with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March 3, 1871, shall
    be hereby invalidated or impaired. Such treaties, and any Executive
    orders and Acts of Congress under which the rights of any Indian
    tribe to fish are secured, shall be construed to prohibit (in
    addition to any other prohibition) the imposition under any law of
    a State or political subdivision thereof of any tax on any income
    derived from the exercise of rights to fish secured by such treaty,
    Executive order, or Act of Congress if section 7873 of title 26
    does not permit a like Federal tax to be imposed on such income.



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