[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR32.2]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 32--INDIAN EDUCATION POLICIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 32.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part, the term:
    (a) Agency School Board means a body, the members of which are 
appointed by the school boards of the schools located within such 
agency, and the number of such members shall be determined by the 
Director in consultation with the affected Tribes or Alaska Native 
entities except that, in agencies serving a single school, the school 
board of such school shall fulfill these duties.
    (b) Alaska Native means an Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut who is a member 
of an Alaska Native entity.

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    (c) Alaska Native Entity means any Alaska Native village or regional 
or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688; 43 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq.).
    (d) Alaska Native Village means any Native village as defined in 
section 3(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 689; 
43 U.S.C. 1602 (c)).
    (e) Boarding school, hereinafter referred to as residential school, 
means a Bureau school offering residential care and support services as 
well as an academic program.
    (f) Bureau means the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of 
the Interior.
    (g) Consultation means a conferring process with Tribes, Alaska 
Native entities, and Tribal organizations on a periodic and systematic 
basis in which the Bureau and Department officials listen to and give 
effect, to the extent they can, to the views of these entities.
    (h) Contract school means a school (other than a public school) 
which is Tribally operated and aided by a financial assistance contract 
with the Bureau.
    (i) Day school means a Bureau school offering an academic program 
and certain support services such as counseling, food, transportation, 
etc., but excluding residential care.
    (j) Director means the Director, Office of Indian Education 
Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
    (k) Early childhood education means comprehensive education 
activities with continuity of educational approach for children ages 0-8 
years and their familes, appropriate for their age, development, 
language and culture which supplement and support usual family 
responsibilities for child growth and development. They are coordinated 
with, but do not supplant, existing educational, health, nutritional, 
social and other necessary services.
    (l) Exceptional Education Programs mean the provision of services to 
those children who are identified as handicapped and have been found to 
meet the criteria of handicapped as defined in Pub. L. 94-142, and 
programs for gifted and talented students.
    (m) Indian means a member of an Indian Tribe.
    (n) Indian Organization means any group, association, partnership, 
corporation, or other legal entity owned or controlled by a federally 
recognized Indian Tribe or Tribes, or a majority of whose members are 
members of federally recognized Indian Tribes.
    (o) Indian Tribe or Tribe means any Indian tribe, band, nation, 
rancheria, pueblo, colony, or community which is recognized as eligible 
for the special programs and services provided by the United States to 
Indians because of their status as Indians.
    (p) Local school board, when used with respect to a Bureau school, 
means a body chosen in accordance with the laws of the Tribe or Alaska 
Native entity to be served or, in the absence of such laws, elected by 
the parents of the Indian children attending the school, except that in 
schools serving a substantial number of students from different Tribes 
or Alaska Native entities the members shall be appointed by the 
governing bodies of the Tribes and entities affected; and, the number of 
such members shall be determined by the Director in consultation with 
the affected Tribes and entities.
    (q) Post-secondary education means any education program beyond the 
age of compulsory education, including higher education, career, 
vocational, and technical.
    (r) Tribal Organization means an organization composed of or duly 
representing Tribal governments which may be national or regional in 
scope and function.