---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 5.1"
title: "25"
number: "5.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/5.1"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Amendments

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

### Authority

Authority: 4 Stat. 737, 25 U.S.C. 43; 22 Stat. 88, 25 U.S.C. 46; 28 Stat. 313, 25 U.S.C. 44; 24 Stat. 389, 25 U.S.C. 348; and 48 Stat. 986, 25 U.S.C. 472 and 479.

### Amendments

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