Anthony Whirlwind Horse, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency
on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today.
Whirlwind Horse has been the Education Program Administrator at the agency. He succeeds Albert Trimble who is now Tribal Chairman of
the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Whirlwind Horse, 48, went to work at Pine Ridge as a teacher in 1957. He spent four years, 1963-67, at the neighboring Cheyenne River
Agency as a Principal-Teacher and then returned to Pine Ridge as a principal in 1967.
A navy veteran, he attended Bacone College and Northeastern State, Tahlequah, both in Oklahoma. He earned a B.S. in education from Black
Hills State College, Spearfish, South Dakota and an M. S. in education from Northern State College, Aberdee, South Dakota.
