[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR5.1]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 5--PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 5.1  Definitions.

    For purposes of making appointments to vacancies in all positions in 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs a preference will be extended to persons of 
Indian descent who are:
    (a) Members of any recognized Indian tribe now under Federal 
Jurisdiction;
    (b) Descendants of such members who were, on June 1, 1934, residing 
within the present boundaries of any Indian reservation;
    (c) All others of one-half or more Indian blood of tribes indigenous 
to the United States;
    (d) Eskimos and other aboriginal people of Alaska; and
    (e) For one (1) year or until the Osage Tribe has formally 
organized, whichever comes first, effective January 5, 1989, a person of 
at least one-quarter degree Indian ancestry of the Osage Tribe of 
Indians, whose rolls were closed by an act of Congress.

[43 FR 2393, Jan. 17, 1978. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982, 
as amended at 54 FR 283, Jan. 5, 1989]