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For Immediate Release: May 10, 1972

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce announced today that Donald I. Morgan, 37, a member of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe, has been named Superintendent of the Crow Creek Agency, Bureau of India, at Fort Thompson, South Dakota.

The appointment will became effective on May 14. He will be become the first superintendent of the Crow Creek Agency. This agency was formed when what had been the Pierre Agency was split into the Crow Creek and Lower Brule Agencies.

Morgan was born at Browning, Montana, and was graduated from Browning High School. He has taken college courses in Business Administration and Economics at the College of Great Falls, University of New Mexico and Central Washington State College. He served in the army for two years, from 1957 to 1959.

Morgan has been serving as Employment Assistance Officer at the Yakima Agency. He entered the Bureau in 1961 at the Wind River Agency and served successively at the Fort Defiance Agency; in the Los Angeles Field Employment Office; the Blackfeet Agency; and the Northern Cheyenne and Yakima agencies.