The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has selected Cyrin F. Maus for a two-year tribal management assignment under the Tribal Managers Corps (TMC), Commissioner of Indian Affairs William E. Hallett announced today. Maus, who will begin his general management assignment at Lower Brule in January, 1981, will be the first manager assigned under TMC.
"We are very please that Mr. Maus has decided to come to Lower Brule because he has a lot of valuable experience in tribal government," said Lower Brule spokesman D. L. Fallis.
For the last eight years, Maus has been an administrator for the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida. He came to the tribe in 1972 as director of their Bilingual Education Project, and four years later became the Education Principal for Miccosukee. Maus was later the Grants and Contracts Director for the tribe before becoming the manager of Tribal Government Programs in 1978.
While at Miccosukee, Maus served on the BIA' s national task force to develop standards for Indian schools pursuant to Public Law 95-561.
For 13 years before working with Miccosukee, Maus was an educator at both high school and college levels as a Catholic priest. He served as principal of St. Leonard College, Centerville, Ohio, from 1966 to 1970.
Maus graduated from Duns Scotus College, Detroit, Michigan, with a B.A. in 1950 and from Florida International University, Miami, Florida, with an M.P.A. in 1978.
