---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 5119"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "5119"
heading: "Application to Alaska"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/5119"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Protection of Indians and Conservation of Resources"
---

# §5119. Application to Alaska


Sections [5101](/usc/25/5101.md), [5108](/usc/25/5108.md), [5110](/usc/25/5110.md), [5111](/usc/25/5111.md), [5121](/usc/25/5121.md), [5124](/usc/25/5124.md), and [5129](/usc/25/5129.md) of this title shall after May 1, 1936, apply to the Territory of Alaska: Provided, That groups of Indians in Alaska not recognized prior to May 1, 1936, as bands or tribes, but having a common bond of occupation, or association, or residence within a well-defined neighborhood, community, or rural district, may organize to adopt constitutions and bylaws and to receive charters of incorporation and Federal loans under sections [5113](/usc/25/5113.md), [5123](/usc/25/5123.md), and [5124](/usc/25/5124.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(May 1, 1936, ch. 254, § 1, 49 Stat. 1250.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 362 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, prior to transfer to section 473a of this title and editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.