A bill to declare that the United States holds certain Chilocco Indian School lands in trust for the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa Indian Tribes of Oklahoma.
PL 99-283 (S.1684), enacted 05/01/1986

100 STAT. 404 
PUBLIC LAW 99-283—MAY 1, 1986 
Public Law 99-283 
99th Congress 
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May 1, 1986 
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To declare that the United States holds certain Chilocco Indian School lands in trust 
for the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa Indian Tribes of 
Oklahoma. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. (a) Except as provided in section 2 of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall partition the interests of the United 
States in the approximately 5,824 acres of land in Oklahoma known 
as the Chilocco Indian School Reserve among the Cherokee Nation 
of Oklahoma, and the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw, and 
Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma in line with the agreement of 
August 30, 1985 among those six tribes. The interests which are 
partitioned to the last five named tribes jointly shall be further 
partitioned by the Secretary in line with an agreement among those 
tribes. 
Qa) The interests partitioned to a tribe under this section are 
declared to be held in trust by the United States for that tribe. 
(c) The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a descrip-
tion of the interests in land partitioned and held in trust under this 
section. 
SEC. 2. The interest of the United States in the minerals in the 
approximately 5,824 acres of land identified in section 1 of this Act 
are declared to be held in trust jointly for the Cherokee Nation of 
Oklahoma, and the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw, and 
Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 
shall act for all six tribes in decisions involving those mineral 
interests. The Secretary shall hold 50 percent of the income from 
those mineral interests in trust for the Cherokee Nation of Okla-
homa and 10 percent of that income in trust for each of the other 
five tribes. 
SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any person of any right 
or interest in the land identified in section 1. 
SEC. 4. The unobligated balance of the income (after provision for 
payment of maintenance and other costs incurred before the enact-
ment of this Act) derived by the Secretary from the interests in the 
land identified in section 1 of this Act shall be used in accordance 
with the provision from the Act of September 10, 1982 (96 Stat, at 
839) codified in section 155b of title 25, United States Code (1982 
Edition) and divided as follows: 
(1) of the part of the balance that the Secretary decides is 
attributed to income from other than mineral interests— 
(A) 75 percent shall be used as jointly requested by the 
governing bodies of the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, 
Kaw, and Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma; and 
(B) 25 percent shall be used as requested by the governing 
body of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. 
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(2) of the part of the balance that the Secretary decides is 
attributed to income from mineral interests— 
(A) 50 percent shall be used as jointly requested by the 
governing bodies of the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, 
Kaw, and Tonkawa Tribes of Oklahoma; and 
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(B) 50 percent shall be used as requested by the governing 
body of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. 
Approved May 1, 1986. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 1684: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-500 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 99-188 (Select Comm. on Indian Affairs). 
CONGRESSSIONAL RECORD: 
Vol. 131 (1985): Dec. 3, considered and passed Senate. 
Vol. 132 (1986): Apr. 21, considered and passed House.