---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 211"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "211"
heading: "Creation of Indian reservations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/211"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §211. Creation of Indian reservations


No Indian reservation shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of New Mexico and Arizona, except by Act of Congress.


## Source credit

(May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 2, 40 Stat. 570.)