Transfer of Howard S. Dushane, superintendent of the Fort Belknap Indian Agency at Harlem, Montana, to the comparable position at the Cheyenne River Agency in South Dakota, effective February 20, was announced today by the Department of the Interior. He succeeds Noralf Nesset who was named superintendent of the Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, N. Dak., last December.
Mr. Dushane is of Indian descent and has been with the Bureau since 1934. His first assignment was at Valentine, Ariz., where he remained in positions of increasing responsibility until 1944 when he transferred to the Fort Apache Agency in the same State as personnel clerk. Five years later he was appointed chief clerk at the Hopi Agency, Keams Canyon, Ariz. After one year in this post he transferred to Hoopa, Calif., as district agent. In 1952 he was designated program officer in the area office at Sacramento, Calif., and three years later moved as program officer to the area office at Portland, Oreg. He was named superintendent of the Fort Belknap Agency in 1957.
Mr. Dushane is a native of Seneca, Mo., and a graduate of the Haskell Indian Institute at Lawrence, Kans.
