Media Contact: Lovett 343-7445
For Immediate Release: December 6, 1977

The Bureau of Indian Affairs announced today that Harley G. Little, a Creek Indian, has been appointed Superintendent of the Okmulgee Agency, Oklahoma.

Little, 47, has been Tribal Operations Officer in the BIA's Area Office at Muskogee, Oklahoma. He succeeds Linus Gwinn who has retired after 13 years as Superintendent at Okmulgee.

Little attended Bacone Junior College, earned a B.A. in History and Education at Northeastern State, Tahlequah, Oklahoma and a Masters in Guidance and Education from the University of Oklahoma at Norman.

A. U.S. Army veteran, he has worked in Indian education programs in the Muskogee Area since 1954. He also served as Dean of Students at Bacone College for two years and was Program Analysis Officer in the Area Office from April of 1976 to January of 1977.