25 U.S.C. § 1773a : US Code - Section 1773A: Resolution of Puyallup tribal land claims

Search 25 U.S.C. § 1773a : US Code - Section 1773A: Resolution of Puyallup tribal land claims

(a) Relinquishment
In accordance with the Settlement Agreement and in return for the
land and other benefits derived from the Settlement Agreement and
this subchapter, the Tribe, and the United States as trustee for
the Tribe and its members, relinquish all claims to tidelands,
submerged lands, and any other lands, and including any mineral
claims and nonfisheries water rights connected with such
relinquished land, known or unknown, within the State of
Washington, subject to the exceptions referred to in subsection (b)
of this section.
(b) Exception for certain lands
Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to the following:
(1) 12.5 acres of former riverbed land confirmed to the Tribe
in Puyallup Tribe of Indians against Port of Tacoma (717 F. 2d
1251 (1983)), which land shall be subject to the terms and
conditions described in the Settlement Agreement and document 6
of the Technical Documents.
(2) All land to which record title in the Tribe or the United
States in trust for the Tribe or its members derives from a
patent issued by the United States or from a conveyance of
tideland by the State of Washington. For the purposes of this
paragraph, the term "record title" means title documented by
identifiable conveyances reflected in those records imparting
constructive notice of conveyances according to the laws of the
State (RCW chapters 65.04 and 65.08) and the final judgments of
State or Federal courts.
(3) Certain land recognized to be owned on August 27, 1988, by
the Tribe or the United States in trust for the Tribe within the
Indian Addition to the city of Tacoma, Washington, as recorded in
book 7 of plats at pages 30 and 31, records of Pierce County,
Washington, as follows:
(A) Land owned on August 27, 1988:
(i) Portions of tracts 2, 5, 6, 10, and 11.
(ii) Tract 7 (school site).
(iii) Tract 8 (church site).
(iv) Tract 9 (cemetery site).
(v) Approximately 38 lots in blocks 8150, 8249, 8350, and
8442, inclusive.
(B) Land, wherever located, added to the above list of
parcels on or before December 1, 1988, in accordance with
paragraph A.3. of section IX of the Settlement Agreement.
(4) The lands transferred to the Tribe pursuant to the
Settlement Agreement.
(5) The rights to underlying lands or the reversionary interest
of the Tribe, if any, in the Union Pacific or Burlington Northern
rights-of-way across the 1873 Survey Area, where the property
over which they were granted belonged, at the time of the grant,
to the United States in trust for the Tribe or to the Tribe.
(6) The submerged lands as of August 27, 1988, in the Puyallup
River within the 1873 Survey Area below the mean high water line.
(c) Personal claims
Nothing in this section or in the Settlement Agreement shall be
construed to impair, eliminate, or in any way affect the title of
any individual Indian to land held by such individual in fee or in
trust, nor shall it affect the personal claim of any individual
Indian as to claims regarding past sales of allotted lands or any
claim which is pursued under any law of general applicability that
protects non-Indians as well as Indians.