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Union Calendar No. 698 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2606 
[Report No. 115–902] 
To amend the Act of August 4, 1947 (commonly known as the Stigler 
Act), with respect to restrictions applicable to Indians of the Five Civ-
ilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2017 
Mr. COLE (for himself, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. LUCAS, and Mr. RUSSELL) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources 
AUGUST 21, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 23, 2017] 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stigler Act Amendments 
of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. IN GENERAL. 
The first section of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 
731, chapter 458), is amended— 
(1) in the matter before subsection (a), by strik-
ing ‘‘That all restrictions’’ and all that follows 
through subsection (a) and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1. (a) All restrictions against alienation, con-
veyance, lease, mortgage, creation of liens, or other encum-
brances upon all lands, including oil and gas or other min-
eral interests, in Oklahoma belonging to a lineal descendant 
by blood of an original enrollee whose name appears on the 
Final Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian 
Territory, whether acquired by allotment, inheritance, de-
vise, gift, purchase, exchange, partition, partition sale, or 
by purchase with restricted funds, of whatever degree of In-
dian blood, and whether enrolled or unenrolled, shall be and 
are hereby, extended until an Act of Congress determines 
otherwise. 
‘‘(b) The extension of restrictions described in sub-
section (a) shall include without limitation, those interests 
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in the estate of a decedent Indian who died before the date 
of enactment of the Stigler Act Amendments of 2018— 
‘‘(1) if such interests were acquired by an heir 
or devisee of one-half or more degree of Indian blood, 
as computed from the nearest enrolled lineal ancestors 
of Indian blood enrolled on the Final Rolls described 
in subsection (a), by final order issued by an Okla-
homa district court or a United States district court 
determining the decedent’s heirs or devisees or other-
wise determining the ownership of said interests be-
fore said date; or 
‘‘(2) if such interests were, immediately prior to 
the decedent’s death, subject to restrictions and had 
not, as of said date, been— 
‘‘(A) the subject of a final order issued by 
an Oklahoma district court or a United States 
district court determining the decedent’s heirs or 
devisees or otherwise determining the ownership 
of said interests; 
‘‘(B) conveyed by the decedent’s undeter-
mined heirs or devisees by deed approved by an 
Oklahoma district court; or 
‘‘(C) conveyed by the decedent’s undeter-
mined heirs or devisees of less than one-half de-
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gree of Indian blood with or without Oklahoma 
district court approval. 
‘‘SEC. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (f), sub-
section (g), subsection (h), and subsection (i), no convey-
ance, including an oil and gas or mineral lease, of any in-
terest in the restricted lands described in this section shall 
be valid unless approved in open court by the district court 
of the county in Oklahoma in which the land is situated;’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘county judge’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘district judge’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘Proceedings for approval of 
conveyances by restricted heirs or devisees’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Proceedings for approval of convey-
ances’’; 
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘best interest of 
the Indian’’ and inserting ‘‘best interest of the grant-
or’’; and 
(4) by adding before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘; (h) nothing contained in this section shall 
limit or affect the right of an Indian owner of re-
stricted lands described in this Act to seek and obtain 
Secretarial removal of restrictions on all or any por-
tion of said restricted lands in accordance with any 
applicable Federal law; (i) nothing contained in this 
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section shall invalidate the alienation, conveyance, 
lease, including oil and gas or other mineral leases, 
mortgage, creation of liens, or other encumbrance of 
any lands, if such action was effective before the date 
of enactment of the Stigler Act Amendments of 2018 
and valid under the law then in effect; and (j) in de-
termining the quantum of Indian blood of any Indian 
heir or devisee, the Final Indian Rolls of the Five 
Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory as to such heir 
or devisee, if enrolled, shall be conclusive of his or her 
quantum of Indian blood. If unenrolled, his or her de-
gree of Indian blood shall be computed from the near-
est enrolled lineal ancestors of Indian blood enrolled 
on the Final Indian Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes 
in Indian Territory’’. 
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 
The Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731, chapter 458), 
is amended— 
(1) in section 5, by striking ‘‘of one-half or more 
Indian blood,’’; 
(2) in section 6(c)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘purchase, partition sale,’’ 
after ‘‘gift,’’ each place it appears; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘of one-half or more Indian 
blood’’; and 
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(3) in section 8, by striking ‘‘of one-half or more 
Indian blood,’’. 
SEC. 4. REPEALS. 
The following are repealed: 
(1) The first section of the Act of August 11, 
1955 (69 Stat. 666, chapter 768). 
(2) Section 2 of the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 
Stat. 731, chapter 458). 
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Union Calendar No. 698 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2606 
[Report No. 115–902] 
A BILL 
To amend the Act of August 4, 1947 (commonly 
known as the Stigler Act), with respect to restric-
tions applicable to Indians of the Five Civilized 
Tribes of Oklahoma, and for other purposes. 
AUGUST 21, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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