---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 4021"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "4021"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/4021"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform"
  - "Subchapter II — Indian Trust Fund Management Program"
---

# §4021. Purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to allow tribes an opportunity to manage tribal funds currently held in trust by the United States and managed by the [Secretary](/usc/25/4001.md?p=3) through the [Bureau](/usc/25/4001.md?p=5), that, consistent with the trust responsibility of the United States and the principles of self-determination, will—

- (1) give Indian tribal governments greater control over the management of such trust funds; or
- (2) otherwise demonstrate how the principles of self-determination can work with respect to the management of such trust funds, in a manner consistent with the trust responsibility of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–412, title II, § 201, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4242.)