25 U.S.C. § 677
Section 677 · Purpose
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case Santa Rosa Band of Indians v. Kings County (1975)
Most recently applied in Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation v. Ute Distribution Corp. (January 2012)
How often courts cite this section
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.
The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the partition and distribution of the assets of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah between the mixed-blood and full-blood members thereof; for the termination of Federal supervision over the trust, and restricted property, of the mixed-blood members of said tribe; and for a development program for the full-blood members thereof, to assist them in preparing for termination of Federal supervision over their property.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Repeal of Inconsistent Laws
Section 29 of act Aug. 27, 1954, provided that: “All Acts or parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act [this subchapter] are hereby repealed insofar as they affect the tribe or its members.”
Separability
Section 30 of act Aug. 27, 1954, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [this subchapter], or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.”