25 U.S.C. § 2101
Section 2101 · Definitions
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case United States v. Navajo Nation (2009)
Most recently applied in State of New York v. Mountain Tobacco Company (November 2019)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
For the purposes of this chapter, the term—
(1) “Indian” means any individual Indian or Alaska Native who owns land or interests in land the title to which is held in trust by the United States or is subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States;
(2) “Indian tribe” means any Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, community, rancheria, colony, or other group which owns land or interests in land title to which is held in trust by the United States or is subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States; and
(3) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 97–382 provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982’.”