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[CITE: 25USC479]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--PROTECTION OF INDIANS AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES
 
Sec. 479. Definitions

    The term ``Indian'' as used in this Act shall include all persons of 
Indian descent who are members of any recognized Indian tribe now under 
Federal jurisdiction, and all persons who are descendants of such 
members who were, on June 1, 1934, residing within the present 
boundaries of any Indian reservation, and shall further include all 
other persons of one-half or more Indian blood. For the purposes of this 
Act, Eskimos and other aboriginal peoples of Alaska shall be considered 
Indians. The term ``tribe'' wherever used in this Act shall be construed 
to refer to any Indian tribe, organized band, pueblo, or the Indians 
residing on one reservation. The words ``adult Indians'' wherever used 
in this Act shall be construed to refer to Indians who have attained the 
age of twenty-one years.

(June 18, 1934, ch. 576, Sec. 19, 48 Stat. 988.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act June 18, 1934, which is 
classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 461 of 
this title and Tables.


                      Admission of Alaska as State

    Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on 
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as 
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 450i, 473a of this title.
