[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR151.2]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 151_LAND ACQUISITIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 151.2  Definitions.

    (a) Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior or authorized 
representative.
    (b) Tribe means any Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, community, 
rancheria, colony, or other group of Indians, including the Metlakatla 
Indian Community of the Annette Island Reserve, which is recognized by 
the Secretary as eligible for the special programs and services from the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs. For purposes of acquisitions made under the 
authority of 25 U.S.C. 488 and 489, or other statutory authority which 
specifically authorizes trust acquisitions for such corporations, 
``Tribe'' also means a corporation chartered under section 17 of the Act 
of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 988; 25 U.S.C. 477) or section 3 of the Act 
of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967; 25 U.S.C. 503).
    (c) Individual Indian means:
    (1) Any person who is an enrolled member of a tribe;
    (2) Any person who is a descendent of such a member and said 
descendant was, on June 1, 1934, physically residing on a federally 
recognized Indian reservation;
    (3) Any other person possessing a total of one-half or more degree 
Indian blood of a tribe;
    (4) For purposes of acquisitions outside of the State of Alaska, 
Individual Indian also means a person who meets the qualifications of 
paragraph (c)(1), (2), or (3) of this section where ``Tribe'' includes 
any Alaska Native Village or Alaska Native Group which is recognized by 
the Secretary as eligible for the special programs and services from the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
    (d) Trust land or land in trust status means land the title to which 
is held in trust by the United States for an individual Indian or a 
tribe.
    (e) Restricted land or land in restricted status means land the 
title to which is held by an individual Indian or a tribe and which can 
only be alienated or encumbered by the owner with the approval of the 
Secretary because of limitations contained in the conveyance instrument 
pursuant to Federal law or because of a Federal law directly imposing 
such limitations.
    (f) Unless another definition is required by the act of Congress 
authorizing a particular trust acquisition, Indian reservation means 
that area of land over which the tribe is recognized by the United 
States as having governmental jurisdiction, except that, in the State of 
Oklahoma or where there has been a final judicial determination that a 
reservation has been disestablished or diminished, Indian reservation 
means that area of land constituting the former reservation of the tribe 
as defined by the Secretary.
    (g) Land means real property or any interest therein.
    (h) Tribal consolidation area means a specific area of land with 
respect to which the tribe has prepared, and the Secretary has approved, 
a plan for the acquisition of land in trust status for the tribe.

[45 FR 62036, Sept. 18, 1980, as amended at 60 FR 32879, June 23, 1995]