An Act to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay certain Indian Claims Commission judgments in in favor of the Sac and Fox Indians, and for other purposes.
PL 94-189 (H.R.4016), enacted 12/31/1975

PUBLIC LAW 94-189—DEC. 31, 1975 
89 STAT. 1093 
Public Law 94-189 
94th Congress 
An Act 
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay certain Indian Claims 
Commission judgments in favor of the Sac and Fox Indians, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the following 
funds: 
(1) the funds appropriated by the Act of October 21, 1968 
(82 Stat. 1190,1198), to pay a judgment to the Sac and Fox Tribe 
of Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Tribe of Mississippi in Iowa 
in Indian Claims Commission docket 219; 
(2) the funds appropriated by the Acts of July 6, 1970 (84 
Stat. 376), and March 21, 1972 (86 Stat. 86), to pay judgments 
to the Sac and Fox Nation in Indian Claims Commission dockets 
153 and 135, respectively; 
(3) any funds whioh are now or which may hereafter be appro-
priated to satisfy any final award of the Indian Claims Commis-
sion to the Sac and Fox Nation in dockets 158, 231, and 83; and 
(4) the amount of $20,421.78 from funds appropriated by the 
Act of June 12, 1975 (89 Stat. 193, 194), to pay a judgment to 
the Sac and Fox Nation in Indian Claims Commission docket 95, 
shall, together with interest earned thereon and after the payment 
of attorney fees and other litigation expenses, be distributed as here-
inafter provided. 
SEC. 2. (a) The funds in docket 219 shall be divided between the 
Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Tribe of the 
Mississippi in Iowa, and the funds in dockets 153 and 135, 158, 231, 
83 and that portion of docket 95 as provided in paragraph (4) of 
section 1 hereof, shall be divided among the Sac and Fox Tribe of 
Oklahoma, the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, and 
the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, on 
the basis of the relative numbers of members of each tribe who were 
enrolled on or who were entitled to be enrolled on the census rolls of 
each tribe as of January 1, 1937. 
(b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 2(a) 
of this Act, each Sac and Fox Tribe shall have not to exceed ninety 
days from the date of this Act in which to identify those persons, 
living or deceased, who were inadvertently omitted from the January 1, 
1937, census roll of the tribe. 
(c) The provisions of section 2(a) of this Act shall apply only 
to the division of the judgment funds described in section 1 of this 
Act, between or among the respective Sac and Fox Tribes, as appro-
priate, and nothing in this section shall be construed as applicable 
to the payment per capita of any portion of the share of any Sac and 
Fox Tribe that may be so distributed. 
SEC. 3. After the judgment funds are divided as provided in sec-
tion 2(a) of this Act, the sum of $5,000, together with appropriate 
interest thereon for not less than one day, shall be deducted from 
the share of the judgment funds that is due the Sac and Fox Tribe 
of Kansas and Nebraska from the judgment in docket 153, and shall 
be divided between the Sac and Fox Tribes of lo vva and of Oklahoma 
Dec. 31. 1975 
[H.R. 4016] 
Indians. 
Sac and Fox 
Indians. 
Judgement funds. 
Distribution. 
Ninety-day 
identification 
period. 
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Tax exemption. 
42 u s e 1305. 
Rules and 
regulations. 
according to the formula for division of the judgment funds as pro-
vided in section 2(a). 
SEC. 4. (a) The funds, as divided under the provisions of this Act, 
may be utilized for any purposes that are authorized by the respective 
tribal governing bodies and approved by the Secretary of the Interior : 
Provided, That not less than 20 per centum, together with accrued 
interest thereon, of the share of each Sac and Fox Tribe shall be used 
for programing purposes. 
(b) Any portion of the share of the judgment funds accruing to any 
Sac and Fox Tribe that may be distributed in individual shares shall 
be paid to persons whose names appear on the membership roll of said 
tribe compiled in accordance with the membership criteria of the 
tribe's constitution, made current as of the date of this Act. 
SEC. 5. Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are 
less than eighteen years of age or who are under a legal disability 
shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the estab-
lishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appro-
priate to protect the best interests of such persons. 
SEC. 6. None of the funds distributed per capita or held in trust 
under the provisions of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State 
income taxes, nor shall such funds or their availability be considered 
as income or resources or otherwise utilized as the basis for denying 
or reducing the financial assistance or other benefits to which such 
household or member would otherwise be entitled to under the Social 
Security Act or any other Federal or federally assisted program. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved December 31, 1975. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-712 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-555 accompanying S. 1823 (Comm. on Interior and Insular 
Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 121 (1975): 
Dec. 16, considered and passed House. 
Dec. 19, considered and passed Senate, in lieu of S. 1823.