Whenever hereafter any of the lands contained within Indian reservations or allotments in this state shall be allotted, sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of, they shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years after such allotment, sale, reservation or other disposal, to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of liquor into the Indian country; and the terms "Indian" and "Indian country" shall include the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the lands owned or occupied by them on the twentieth day of June, nineteen hundred and ten, or which are occupied by them at the time of the admission of New Mexico as a state.

ANNOTATIONS

Section is the same as Enabling Act, § 2 H. Tenorio v. Tenorio, 1940-NMSC-002, 44 N.M. 89, 98 P.2d 838, superseded by statute, Your Food Stores, Inc. v. Village of Espanola, 1961-NMSC-041, 68 N.M. 327, 361 P.2d 950. See Pamphlet 3.

Indians under protection of United States. — Pueblo Indians are under protection of United States as dependent communities, and their lands and property are subject to congressional legislation. United States v. Candelaria, 271 U.S. 432, 46 S. Ct. 561, 70 L. Ed. 1023 (1926). Compare United States v. Wooten, 40 F.2d 882 (10th Cir. 1930).

In the exercise of government's guardianship over Indians and their affairs, congress has power to prohibit introduction of liquor into lands of pueblos. United States v. Sandoval, 231 U.S. 28, 34 S. Ct. 1, 58 L. Ed. 107 (1913). In connection with this case, see United States v. Wooten, 40 F.2d 882 (10th Cir. 1930).

Law reviews. — For student symposium, "Constitutional Revision - Indians in the New Mexico Constitution," see 9 Nat. Resources J. 466 (1969).