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