Media Contact: Lovett 202/343-7445
For Immediate Release: November 25, 1980

Edward H. Hall, who is affiliated with the Arikara and Hidatsa Tribes, has been appointed superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Crow agency in Montana. For the past several months, Hall has been working as a special assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

A graduate of North Dakota State University, Hall has spent most of his working life building roads and bridges. He has been a supervisory highway engineer in the Bureau's central office and at the Turtle Mountain and Standing Rock agencies in North Dakota. He also worked as a highway engineer for the Forest Service in Portland, Oregon.

From 1977 to 1979, Hall was the manager of the Standing Rock Enterprises, Inc., a corporation which operated a grocery store and housing company as well as a road Hall served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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