25 U.S.C. § 396a
Leases of unallotted lands for mining purposes; duration of leases
On and after
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 70
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1947–2022 · leading case: United States v. Navajo Nation
United States v. Navajo Nation (2003)
“347 , 25 U. S. C. § 396a et seq., and the role it assigns to the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) with respect to coal leases executed by an Indian Tribe and a private lessee.”
Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. New Mexico (1989)
“347 , 25 U. S. C. § 396a et seq. Since at least as early as 1953, the Tribe has been leasing reservation lands to nonmembers for the production of oil and gas.”
United States v. Navajo Nation (2009)
“347 , 25 U. S. C. §396a et seq., among other statutes, gave the Government broad control over mineral leasing on Indian lands, thus creating a fiduciary duty enforceable through suits for monetary damages.”
Navajo Nation v. United States (2001)
“The Mineral Leasing Act starts with the provision that no mining lease may be entered unless approved by the Secretary of the Interior: 25 U.S.C. § 396a. On and after May 11, 1938, unallotted lands within any Indian reservation or lands owned by any tribe, group, or band of…”
Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe of Indians (1985)
“347 , 25 U. S. C. § 396a et seq. (1938 Act). I Respondent Blackfeet Tribe filed this suit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana challenging the application of several Montana taxes [1] to the Tribe's royalty interests in oil and gas produced under…”
Catskill Development, L.L.C. v. Park Place Entertainment Corp. (2008)
“(citing 25 U.S.C. § 396a). Additionally, the parties separately contracted for a provision providing that “in the event the assignments were not approved .”
Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe (1982)
“” 25 U. S. C. § 396a. One of the purposes of the 1938 Act was to establish uniformity in the leasing of tribal lands by applying the law governing oil and gas leasing to all other mineral leasing as well.”
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Peabody Western Coal Company (2005)
“” The record indicates that the language of the Navajo employment preferences remains unchanged and does not show that the preference has been extended to members of the Hopi Nation.”
Crow Tribe of Indians v. State of Montana, and Ramon Dore, Director, Montana Department of Revenue (1981)
“The Secretary is authorized to reject all bids and readvertise leases when in the Secretary’s judgment that course would be in the Indians’ best interests.”
Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. Andrus (1982)
“First, the Tribe argues that the trial court did not have the power to toll the primary terms of the leases since this would in effect be altering the provisions of the statute, 25 U.S.C. § 396a, that sets the maximum primary term of the leases at ten years.”
Peabody Coal Company Peabody Western Coal Company Peabody Holding Group, Inc. v. Navajo Nation (2004)
“25 U.S.C. § 396a. Leases 8580 and 9910 were accordingly approved by the Secretary.”
Montana v. Crow Tribe of Indians (1998)
“347 , 25 U. S. C. § 396a et seq., Westmoreland Resources, a non-Indian company, entered into a mining lease with the Tribe for coal underlying approximately 31,000 acres of the ceded strip.”
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