{"data":{"id":"us/25-cfr-5.1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"25 CFR 5.1","heading":"Definitions.","body":"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:\n(a) Members of any recognized Indian tribe now under Federal Jurisdiction;\n(b) Descendants of such members who were, on June 1, 1934, residing within the present boundaries of any Indian reservation;\n(c) All others of one-half or more Indian blood of tribes indigenous to the United States;\n(d) Eskimos and other aboriginal people of Alaska; and\n(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.","path":["Title 25—Indians","CHAPTER I—BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER A—PROCEDURES AND PRACTICE","PART 5—PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-25.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:59Z","sha256":"04d3c5e453da9cc782b11eb3e04fbd72fcb0288bed83cf59a9ca24242818edeb","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/25-cfr-2.903","next":"us/25-cfr-5.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}