{"data":{"id":"us/42-cfr-136a.41","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"42 CFR 136a.41","heading":"a.41 Definitions.","body":"For purposes of making appointments to vacancies in all positions in the Indian Health Service 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; or\n(e) Until January 4, 1990 or until the Osage Tribe has formally organized, whichever comes first, 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 42—Public Health","CHAPTER I—PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER M—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","PART 136a—INDIAN HEALTH","Subpart E—Preference in Employment"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-42.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:11Z","sha256":"c86227806ad4a1b9b79525b514ae3b26f19672aba27f39ec2a65f1a195d8d348","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/42-cfr-136a.34","next":"us/42-cfr-136a.42"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}