---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12133"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12133"
heading: "“Indian tribe” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12133"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part A — Ounce of Prevention Council"
---

# §12133. “Indian tribe” defined


In this part, “[Indian tribe](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18)” means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18), including an [Alaska Native village](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-2) (as defined in or established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ([43 U.S.C. 1601](/usc/43/1601.md) et seq.),[^1] that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) provided by the United States to [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) because of their status as [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30103, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1838.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 92–203, § 2, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13743 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.