---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 2207"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "2207"
heading: "Full faith and credit to tribal actions under tribal ordinances limiting descent and distribution of trust or restricted or controlled lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/2207"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Indian Land Consolidation"
---

# §2207. Full faith and credit to tribal actions under tribal ordinances limiting descent and distribution of trust or restricted or controlled lands


The [Secretary](/usc/25/2201.md?p=3) in carrying out his responsibility to regulate the descent and distribution of trust lands under [section 372 of this title](/usc/25/372.md), and other laws, shall give full faith and credit to any tribal actions taken pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of [section 2205 of this title](/usc/25/2205.md), which provision shall apply only to estates of decedent’s whose deaths occur on or after the effective date of tribal ordinances adopted pursuant to this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 208, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2519; Pub. L. 106–462, title I, § 103(5), Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1999.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–462 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205” for “section 2205”.