---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 211"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "211"
heading: "Creation of Indian reservations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/211"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §211. Creation of Indian reservations


No [Indian reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of New Mexico and Arizona, except by Act of Congress.


## Source credit

(May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 2, 40 Stat. 570.)