Appointment of Knute H. Lee as Superintendent of the Turtle Mountain Consolidated Indian Agency, Belcourt, N. Dak., was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay.
Mr. Lee has been principal of schools at the Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, N. Dak., for eight years. He first came with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1939 as a teacher of' agriculture at Fort Totten, N, Dak. He also served as stockman-farmer at the Crow Creek Agency, Fort Thompson, S. Dak., and as reservation principal at Cheyenne River Agency, Cheyenne River, S. Dak. Before joining the Indian Bureau in 1939 he was a school superintendent and principal in several North Dakota communities.
Mr. Leo was born in Delisle, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1910. He attended the University of North Dakota for one year and graduated from Minot State Teacher's College in 1932.
At Turtle Mountain Agency he will supervise the Bureau's operations on both the Turtle Mountain and the Fort Totten Reservations. He succeeds Peru Farver, who left Turtle Mountain last August to assume the superintendence at Fort Hall Agency, Fort Hall, Idaho.
