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Superintendent Appointed at Fort Totten Agency

Media Contact: Lovett 343-7445
For Immediate Release: August 20, 1975

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today that John Buffalohorn, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Fort Totten Agency in North Dakota.

The agency serves the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe.

Buffalohorn has been the Administrative Manager of the Fort Peck Agency, Poplar, and Montana.

A graduate of the Haskell Indian Institute, Buffalohorn is a Korean War Army veteran. He has worked 21 years for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. For nearly six years, prior to going to Fort Peck, he was the Property and Supply Officer at the Turtle Mountain Agency at Belcourt, North Dakota.

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