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Anson A. Baker, an enrolled member of the Mandan-Hidatsa Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Blackfeet Agency at Browning, Montana, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today.
Baker has been Superintendent the past three years at the Fort Berthold Agency in North Dakota. He was previously Superintendent of the Crow and Fort Peck agencies in Montana.
Baker, 49, came to word for the Bureau 25 years ago as a property supply clerk in the Aberdeen, South Dakota, Area Office. After working at the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies in South Dakota and Fort Belknap in Montana, he was at the Blackfeet Agency from 1964 to 1967 as administrative manager.