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title: "25 U.S.C. § 287"
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# 25 U.S.C. § 287 - Taking child to school in another State without written consent

## Text

No Indian child shall be taken from any school in any State or Territory to a school in any other State against its will or without the written consent of its parents.

(June 10, 1896, ch. 398, § 1, 29 Stat. 348.)