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42 CFR §136.41

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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:
  1. (a)Members of any recognized Indian tribe now under Federal jurisdiction;
  2. (b)Descendants of such members who were, on June 1, 1934, residing within the present boundaries of any Indian reservation;
  3. (c)All others of one-half or more Indian blood of tribes indigenous to the United States;
  4. (d)Eskimos and other aboriginal people of Alaska; or
  5. (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.