An Act to authorize the preparation of a roll of persons whose lineal ancestors were members of the Confederated Tribes of Weas, Piankashaws, Peorias, and Kaskaskias, merged under the Treaty of May 30, 1854 (10 Stat. 1082), and to provide for the disposition
PL 91-364 (S.885), enacted 07/31/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-364-JULY 31, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
July 31,1970 
[S. 885] 
Public Law 91-364 
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AN ACT 
To authorize the prepp ration of a roll of persons whose lineal ancestors were 
members of the Confederated Tribes of Weas, Piankashaws, Peorias, and 
Kaskaskias, merged under the Treaty of May 30, 1854 (10 Stat. 1082), and to 
provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in Indian 
Claims Commission Dockets Numbered 314, amended, 314-E and 6"), and for 
other purposes. 
Indians. 
Confederated 
Tribes of Weas, 
Piankashaws, 
Peorias, and 
Kaskaskias, roll 
of descendants. 
25 u s e 821-826. 
10 Stat. 1082. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Subsequent 
judgment funds, 
distribution. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and, Bouse of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secre-
tary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of all persons who meet the 
following requirements: (1) they were born on or prior to and were 
living on the date of this Act; (2) their names or the name of a lineal 
ancestor from whom they claim eligibility appears on (a) the final 
roll of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, pursuant to the Act 
of August 2,1956 (70 Stat. 937), or (b) the January 1, 1937, census of 
the Peoria Tribe, or (c) the 1920 census of the Peoria Tribe, or (d) 
the Indian or Citizen Class lists pursuant to the Treaty of February 23, 
1867 (15 Stat. 520), or (e) the Schedule of Persons or Families com-
posing the United Tribes of Weas, Piankashaws, Peorias, and Kas-
kaskias, annexed to the Treaty of May 30, 1854. 
(b) Applications for enrollment must be filed with the area director 
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee, Oklahoma, in the manner 
and within the time limits prescribed for that purpose by the Secretary 
of the Interior. The determination of the Secretary regarding the 
eligibility of an applicant shall be final. 
SEC. 2. After the deduction of attorneys' fees and expenses and the 
administrative costs involved in the preparation of the roll and the 
distribution of the individual shares, the remaining funds on deposit 
in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Peoria Tribe on 
behalf of the Wea Nation that were appropriated by the Acts of 
May 13, 1966 (80 Stat. 141, 150), and June 19, 1968 (82 Stat. 239), 
in satisfaction of judgments that were obtained by the Peoria Tribe 
on behalf of the Wea Nation in Indian Claims Commission dockets 
numbered 314, amended, and 314-E, respectively, and the funds to the 
credit of the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma on behalf of the Wea, Pianka-
shaw, Peoria, and Kaskaskia Nations that were appropriated by the 
Act of July 22, 1969 (83 Stat. 49, 62), in satisfaction of a judgment 
in docket numbered 65, shall be disposed of in the following manner: 
The Secretary shall pay $3,000 of such funds to the Peoria Tribe of 
Oklahoma for improvement and maintenance of the Peoria Indian 
Cemetery located approximately ten miles northeast of Miami, Okla-
homa, and shall distribute the balance of such funds in equal shares 
to those persons whose names appear on the roll prepared pursuant 
to section 1 of this Act. 
SEC. 3. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the 
Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a living enrollce directly 
to such enrollee and the Seci-etary shall distribute a per capita share of 
a deceased enrollee directly to his heirs or legatees upon proof of death 
and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary, whose findings upon 
such proof shall be final and conclusive. 
(b) A share payable to a person under twenty-one years of age or to 
a person under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such 
procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary 
determines will adequately protect the best interest of such person. 
SEC. 4. Funds that may hereafter be deposited in the United States 
Treasury to the credit of the Peoria Tribe on behalf of the Wea, 
Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, or Peoria Nation, to pay any judgment aris-
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ing out of proceedings presently pending before the Indian Claims 
Commission in dockets numbered 99, 289, 313, 314-A, B, C, and D, and 
338 and the interest accrued thereon, after payment of attoi-neys' fees 
and expenses and all costs incident to bringing the roll current as 
provided is this section and distributing the shares, shall be distributed 
on a per capita basis in accordance with section 3 of this Act to per-
sons whose names appear on the roll prepared under section 1, after 
the roll has been brought current to the date the funds are appropri-
ated by adding names of persons to the roll who were born after the 
date of this Act, but on or prior to and living on the date the funds 
are appropriated, and by deleting names of enrollees who died be-
tween the effective date of this Act and the date the funds are 
appropriated. 
SEC. 5. The funds distributed under the provisions of this Act shall 
income tax 
not be subject to Federal or State income taxes. 
exemption. 
SEC. 6. Any per capita share, whether payable to a living enrollee or 
to the heirs or legatees of a deceased enrollee, which the Secretary of 
the Interior is unable to deliver within two years after the date the 
check is issued, and all unexpended tribal and judgment funds set 
aside for tribal roll preparation and distribution, shall revert to the 
Peoria Tribe, and all claims for such per capita shall thereafter be 
barred forever. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
Regulations. 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved July 31, 1970. 
Public Law 91-365 
AN ACT 
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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in New 
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Mexico to the Cuba Indei)en(ient Schools and to the village of Cuba. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
Land'c'^n^y!' 
of the Interior is authorized to convey to the Cuba Independent ance. 
Schools, District 20, Sandoval County, Cuba, New Mexico under the 
Recreation and Public Purposes Act, as amended 
(43 U.S.C. 
869—869-4) the following lands: 
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Township 21 north, range 1 west, New Mexico principal merid- so stati 210! 
ian, section 21, lots 4, 5, and 6; section 28, northeast quarter north-
east quarter and lot 1; 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey to the 
Village of Cuba, Sandoval County, Cuba, New Mexico, under the 
Recreation and Public Purposes Act, as amended 
(43 U.S.C. 
869—869-4) the following lands: 
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Township 21 north, range 1 west. New Mexico principal 
meridian, section 22, northwest quarter southwest quarter. 
Approved July 31, 1970. 
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