---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 287"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "287"
heading: "Taking child to school in another State without written consent"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/287"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Education of Indians"
---

# §287. Taking child to school in another State without written consent


No Indian child shall be taken from any school in any State or Territory to a school in any other State against its will or without the written consent of its parents.


## Source credit

(June 10, 1896, ch. 398, § 1, 29 Stat. 348.)