43 U.S.C. § 868 : US Code - Section 868: Representation of Indian claimants in suits to determine right to school lands

Search 43 U.S.C. § 868 : US Code - Section 868: Representation of Indian claimants in suits to determine right to school lands

In any suit instituted in the Supreme Court of the United States
to determine the right of a State to what are commonly known as
school lands within any Indian Reservation or any Indian cession
where an Indian tribe claims any right to or interest in the lands
in controversy, or in the disposition thereof by the United States,
the right of such State may be fully tested and determined without
making the Indian tribe, or any portion thereof, a party to the
suit if the Secretary of the Interior is made a party thereto; and
the duty of representing and defending the right or interest of the
Indian tribe, or any portion thereof, in the matter shall devolve
upon the Attorney General upon the request of such Secretary.