---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1303"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1303"
heading: "Habeas corpus"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1303"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Constitutional Rights of Indians"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §1303. Habeas corpus


The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall be available to any person, in a court of the United States, to test the legality of his detention by order of an [Indian tribe](/usc/25/1301.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–284, title II, § 203, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 78.)