Current through October 31, 2024
Section 136.41 - DefinitionsFor 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:
(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; or(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.