25 U.S.C. § 47 : US Code - Section 47: Employment of Indian labor and purchase of products of Indian industry; participation in Mentor-Protege Program

Search 25 U.S.C. § 47 : US Code - Section 47: Employment of Indian labor and purchase of products of Indian industry; participation in Mentor-Protege Program

So far as may be practicable Indian labor shall be employed, and
purchases of the products (including, but not limited to printing,
notwithstanding any other law) of Indian industry may be made in
open market in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
Participation in the Mentor-Protege Program established under
section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note) or receipt of assistance pursuant
to any developmental assistance agreement authorized under such
program shall not render Indian labor or Indian industry ineligible
to receive any assistance authorized under this section. For the
purposes of this section -
(1) no determination of affiliation or control (either direct
or indirect) may be found between a protege firm and its mentor
firm on the basis that the mentor firm has agreed to furnish (or
has furnished) to its protege firm pursuant to a mentor-protege
agreement any form of developmental assistance described in
subsection (f) of section 831 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note); and
(2) the terms "protege firm" and "mentor firm" have the meaning
given such terms in subsection (c) of such section 831.