# Payments to Indians Land Settlements

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians  
**Source document:** Bureau of Indian Affairs · p. 179  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/payments-to-indians-land-settlements  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 0.6 |
| FY2027 | request | 0.6 |

## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Implements Indian land settlements such as the White Earth Land Settlement Act, investigating divested allotments and paying compensation to eligible allottees or heirs.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Bureau of Indian Affairs › Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians › Payments to Indians Land Settlements


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*