25 USC § 5118 - Application generally

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identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s5118"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "25 USC § 5118 - Application generally"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "5118"
section_name: "Application generally"
chapter_number: 45
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF INDIANS AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-07-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 18, 1934, ch. 576, § 13, 48 Stat. 986; Pub. L. 101–301, § 3(b), May 24, 1990, 104 Stat. 207.)"
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# § 5118. Application generally

25 U.S.C. 5112*Provided*25 U.S.C. 510725 U.S.C. 5107

The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any of the Territories, colonies, or insular possessions of the United States, except that sections 9, 10, 11, 12, and 16 [, 5113, 5115, 5116, 5123] shall apply to the Territory of Alaska: , That sections 4, 7, 16, 17, and 18 of this Act [, 5110, 5123, 5124, 5125] shall not apply to the following-named Indian tribes, the members of such Indian tribes, together with members of other tribes affiliated with such named tribes located in the State of Oklahoma, as follows: Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, Delaware, Wichita, Osage, Kaw, Otoe, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Ponca, Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, Wyandotte, Iowa, Sac and Fox, Kickapoo, Pottawatomi, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. Section 4 of this Act [] shall not apply to the Indians of the Klamath Reservation in Oregon.

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**Source Credit**: (June 18, 1934, ch. 576, § 13, 48 Stat. 986; Pub. L. 101–301, § 3(b), May 24, 1990, 104 Stat. 207.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is , , popularly known as the Indian Reorganization Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1990— substituted “sections 4,” for “sections 2, 4,” in proviso.

## Executive Documents

### Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, , 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of , , , set out as notes preceding , Territories and Insular Possessions.