The act effectively prohibited the ownership of reindeer herds in Alaska by non-Native Americans.

[1] Authority to promulgate rules regarding the ownership and maintenance of reindeer herds was delegated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs via the Secretary of the Interior, who banned most transactions to non-natives.

[2] The act was modeled in part on Norwegian and Swedish policies on the ownership of reindeer by the Sami people of Lapland.

By 1989 the regulations were challenged in court, resulting in a legal distinction between reindeer imported after 1937 by non-Natives and the Native herds.

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