An Act to provide for the termination of Federal supervision over the property of the Peoria Tribe of Indians in the State of Oklahoma and the individual members thereof, and for other purposes
PL 84-921 (S.3968), enacted 08/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 921-AUG. 2, 1956 
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Public Law 921 
CHAPTER 881 
AN ACT 
To provide for the termination of Federal supervision over the property of the 
Peoria Tribe of Indians in the State of Oklahoma and the individual members 
thereof, and for other purposes. 
August 2, 195 5 
[S. 3968] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the purpose of 
this Act is to provide for the termination of Federal supervision over 
the affairs of the Peoria Tribe of Indians located in northeastern 
Oklahoma and the individual members thereof, and for a termination 
of Federal services furnished to such Indians because of their status 
as Indians. 
SEC. 2. All restrictions on the sale or encumbrance of trust or re-
stricted land owned by members of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma (including allottees, heirs, and devisees, either adult or 
minor), regardless of where the land is located, are hereby removed 
three years after the date of this Act, and the patents or deeds under 
which titles are then held shall pass the titles in fee simple subject 
to any valid encumbrance. 
The titles to all interests in trust or re-
stricted land acquired by members of the tribe by devise or inheritance 
three years or more after the date of this Act shall vest in such 
members in fee simple, subject to any valid encumbrance. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Federal trust relationship to the affairs of the 
Peoria Tribe and its members shall terminate three years after the date 
of this Act, and thereafter individual members of the tribe shall not 
be entitled to any of the services performed by the United States for 
Indians because of their status as Indians, all statutes of the United 
States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians (includ-
ing the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), and the Act of June 18, 
1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 
378)) shall no longer be applicable to the members of the tribe, and 
the laws of the several States shall apply to the tribe and its members 
in the same manner as they apply to other citizens or persons within 
their jurisdiction. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall affect the status of the members of 
the tribe as citizens of the United States. 
(c) Prior to the termination of the Federal trust relationship in 
accordance with the provisions of this section, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to undertake, within the limits of available ap-
propriations, a special program of education and training designed 
to help the members of the tribe to earn a livelihood, to conduct their 
own affairs, and to assume their responsibilities as citizens without 
special services because of their status as Indians. 
Such program may 
include language training, orientation in non-Indian community cus-
toms and living standards, vocational training and related subjects, 
transportation to the place of training or instruction. 
For the pur-
poses of such program, the Secretary is authorized to enter into con-
tracts or agreements with any Federal, State, or local governmental 
agency, corporation, association, or person. 
Nothine: in this section 
shall preclude any Federal agency from undertaking any other 
program for the education and training of Indians with funds 
appropriated to it. 
SEC. 4. (a) Effective when all claims of the tribe that are now pend-
ing before the Indian Claims Commission or the Court of Claims have 
been finally adjudicated, the corporate charter issued pursuant to the 
Act of June 26,1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended, is hereby revoked. 
Indians, 
Peoria 
Tribe. 
Federal s u p e r -
vision terminated. 
Restrictions re-
moved on sale of 
land. 
25 u s e 5 01. 
25 u s e 462. 
25 u s e 478a. 
Training progiain. 
Corporate chartis 
revoked. 
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PUBLIC LAW 922-AUG. 2, 1956 
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ta^^TemiMted'^ 
(^) Effective when all claims of the tribe that are now pending be-
fore the Indian Claims Commission or the Court of Claims have been 
finally adjudicated, all powers of the Secretary of the Interior or 
other officer of the United States to take, review, or approve any 
action under the constitution and bylaws of the tribe are hereby 
terminated. Any powers conferred upon the tribe by such constitu-
tion which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby 
terminated. Such termination shall not affect the power of the tribe 
to take any action under its constitution and bylaws that is consistent 
with this Act without the participation of the Secretary or other officer 
of the United States. 
Ron of members. 
^^^ 
5 Nothing in this Act shall affect any claims heretofore filed 
against the United States by the Peoria Tribe. 
SEC. 6. The Peoria Tribe shall have a period of six months from 
the date of this Act in which to prepare and submit to the Secretary 
a proposed roll of the members of the tribe living on the date of this 
Act, which shall be published in the Federal Register. The proposed 
roll shall be prepared in accordance with eligibility requirements pre-
scribed in the tribe's constitution and bylaws. If the tribe fails to 
submit such roll within the time specified in this section, the Secre-
tary of the Interior shall prepare a proposed roll for the tribe, which 
shall be published in the Federal Register. 
Any person claiming 
membership rights in the tribe or any interest in its assets, or a repre-
sentative of the Secretary on behalf of any such person, may, within 
sixty days from the date of publication of the proposed roll, file an 
appeal with the Secretary contesting the inclusion or omission of the 
name of any person on or from such roll. The Secretary shall review 
such appeals and his decisions thereon shall be final and conclusive. 
^Publication in After dispositiou of all such appeals by the Secretary, the roll of the 
tribe shall be published in the Federal Register, and such roll shall 
be final for the purposes of this Act. 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
August 2, 1956 
[S. 3259] 
Public Law 922 
CHAPTER 882 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act to promote the education of the blind, approved March 3, 
1879, as amended, so as to authorize wider distribution of books and other 
special instructional material for the b ind, to increase the appropriations 
authorized for this purpose, and for other purposes. 
Education of the 
blind. 
20 Stat. 468. 
E X p e n diture of 
appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the paragraph 
of section 102 of the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 U. S. C. 
102), labeled "First'' is amended to read as follows: 
"First. Such appropriation shall be expended by the trustees of the 
American Printing House for the Blind each year in manufacturing 
and furnishing books and other materials specially adapted for in-
struction of the blind; and the total amount of such books and other 
materials so manufactured and furnished by such appropriation shall 
each year be distributed among all the public institutions, in the 
States, Territories, and possessions of the United States, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, in which blind 
pupils are educated. 
Each public institution for the education of 
the blind shall receive, in books and other materials, upon requisition 
of its superintendent, that portion of the appropriation as is shown 
by the ratio between the number of blind pupils in that institution 
and the total number of blind pupils in all of the public institutions 
in which blind pupils are educated. Each chief State school officer