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Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson today announced the appointment of Karen R. Ducheneaux, enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, to be his Special Assistant. She will prepare Bureau position papers and help present the Bureau’s policies, goals, and objectives to the public.

"Miss Ducheneaux has wide experience in a variety of private Indian and Federal Indian organizations and in researching Indian problems connected with Government, both tribal and Federal," Commissioner Thompson said. "She has also had experience as a working journalist. I am pleased that she has accepted this opportunity to serve Indian people and the Federal Government."

Miss Ducheneaux was graduated from the University of South Dakota with a B.A. in government and minors in history and philosophy.

She comes to the Bureau from the American Indian Press Association, a Washington, D.C., news service organization.

Miss Ducheneaux helped establish the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, Washington, D.C., and worked for the organization as a writer, researcher, and administrative assistant.

She has done extensive work, both volunteer and as a staff legislative assistant, for the National Congress of American Indians, the oldest and largest national Indian organization.

Miss Ducheneaux has also been executive assistant to the National Council on Indian Opportunity, headed by the Vice President, and has been a research: assistant for the Labor and Public Welfare’s Special Subcommittee on Indian Education of the United States Senate.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson today announced the appointment of Robert P. St. Arnold, 42, an enrolled member of the L’Anse Band of Chippewa Indians, to head the New York Liaison Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syracuse, New York.

Although Indians on reservations in New York State are the responsibility of that State's government, the Indians' lands cannot be alienated and therefore BIA maintains a liaison office.

St. Arnold has already assumed the post.

"I am pleased we have a man of St. Arnold's proven ability to undertake the duties of the New York Liaison Office," Thompson said.

St. Arnold moved to New York from the job of Employment Assistance Officer of the Bureau in Cleveland, Ohio. He had been in Cleveland since May 1970. Prior to that time, he was Field Representative in the Great Lakes Agency of the Bureau with headquarters in Ashland, Wisc. He assumed that position in 1965.

He became business management advisor and property and supply assistant with the Seminole Agency, headquarters in Dania, Fla. in 1963 and has held a variety of jobs, including that of procurement assistant with the Washington, D.C. office of the Bureau. He began his Bureau career in 1954.

A graduate of Haskell Institute, now Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence, Kans., he served in the United States Army for two years beginning in September 1952.

He is married to the former Shirley Adams. They have three sons and one daughter.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson today announced the appointment of James P. Howell, 53, enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, Okla., to the post of Superintendent, San Carlos Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, with headquarters at San Carlos, Ariz.

Howell moves to this field position from one of Equal Employment Opportunity Officer of the Bureau in Washington, D.C., a position he has held since August 1972.

"Howell is a graduate of the Department of the Interior's fifth management training program," Thompson pointed out. “He has been the Superintendent of the Fort Berthold (North Dakota) and Tuba City (Arizona) Agencies of the Bureau and will now hold a similar position at San Carlos. The Bureau is fortunate in having dedicated career people of this type.”

Howell began his Bureau career in 1940 with the Potawatomi Agency, Horton, Kans. In 1949 he moved to Haskell Institute, now Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence, Kans., from which he had been graduated.

He became the Administrative Officer of the Western Washington, Agency, Everett, Wash. in 1956, and held the same post at Fort Belknap Agency, Harlem, Mont. beginning in 1957. He became Personnel Officer of the Aberdeen Area Office, Aberdeen, S. Dak. in 1961 and Superintendent of the Fort Berthold, Agency, North Dakota, in 1963. He moved from North Dakota to Tuba City Agency, Ariz., on the Navajo Reservation, in 1966.

Howell has attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kans., George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and Everett, Wash. Junior College. He is a member of the National Congress of American Indians and a veteran of World War II.

Howell is married to the former Norma Green, a member of the Iowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. They have four children.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today the appointment of Martin E. Seneca, Jr., 32, to be Director of Trust Responsibilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., effective May 12, 1974. His post is the second of five directorships - top jobs within the bureau of Indian Affairs - to be filled.

"As Director of Trust Responsibilities, Seneca will head the Central Office functions related to the Bureau's programs in the development and management of programs relative to the bureau's trust and legal responsibilities including the protection of the rights of Indians in their trust property and tl1ose rights affecting trust property that are afforded by tribal sovereignty," Thompson said.

Seneca is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of New York. He holds a Master’s degree in public administration From Brigham Young University and a doctorate in law from Harvard University and is presently Associate Professor of Law at tile University of Utah.

He accepted that post following a year as a White House Fellow in which he served as special assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also has been an associate attorney in the Washington firm of Wilkinson, Cragun and Harker.

In 1970, Seneca received a two-year Presidential appointment as a member of the National Council on Indian Opportunity in the Office of the Vice President. NCIO is composed of eight outstanding American Indian leaders and eight members of the President's cabinet.

From May 1969 to September 1969 he was a project developer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, New York. From June 1966 to September 1967 he was technical assistant, Utah University Bureau of Indian Services which had an Office of Economic Opportunity grant to provide training and technical assistance to Indian tribes of the Northwest.

In high school Seneca represented the American Indians at the First International Youth Conference sponsored by UNICEF.

"His academic preparation for the administrative and legal fields together with his experience in working with Indian people and Government agencies at all levels gives Seneca the unique qualifications needed to administer the Office of Trust Responsibilities, “ Thompson said.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today that a contract amounting to nearly $2.5 million has been let by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, for the construction of a 14 mile stretch of bituminous paved highway in the Glen Canyon Dam area of the Navajo Indian Reservation.

Successful bidder is Thorn Construction Co., Inc. of Provo, Utah.

This is the first of the proposed contracts to be let for the modernization of BIA Route N 20, which will give the public a year-round route from Flagstaff, Ariz., to the Lake Powell Recreation Area, Thompson indicated. The contract calls for construction of the highway beginning near Coppermine Ariz., and running north to join with BIA Route N 22 near Page, Ariz.

The new $2.5 million stretch of highway will replace the present narrow dirt road in the area with an all-weather bituminous highway. This will enable Navajo to get to schools, shopping and trading centers and places of employment more easily and for longer periods of time during the year, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs said.

"Good roads are the lifeline of economic and social development," said Commissioner Thompson. “The Navajo Indian Reservation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States and the need for an improved road system there is acute. I am happy to announce this project."

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson today announced that a nearly $2.2 million contract for surfacing about 25 miles of road on the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona -- second in size among Indian reservations only to the Navajo -- has been let to a Phoenix, Ariz., contractor, Tanner Bros. Contracting Co.

The project includes the grading, draining, end surfacing of 25.63 miles of Bureau of Indian Affairs' Routes 23 and 34. This is a vital link for the villages of Hickiwen, Raya Chin, Kaka, Vantana, and Santa Rosa. It is the route for school busses, an avenue to health facilities, and the road to jobs for the Papago.

"This project replaces a road that washed out when it was flooded and became like a washboard in the hot summer sun," Thompson said. "The new thoroughfare encourages the best kind of social and economic development.”

Nearly 8,000 Papago Indians live on the -reservation, which is over 2.7 million acres.

Theodore C. Krenzke, 44, Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Cherokee Agency, North Carolina, for eight years, has been named Director of Indian Services of the entire Bureau, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today. He will assume his duties in early June.

Krenzke's post is the third of five directorships - top jobs within the Bureau of Indian Affairs - to be filled.

"As Director of Indian Services, Krenzke will head Bureau functions related to social services, law enforcement, tribal government, housing, and activities concerning youth and the aged," Thompson said. "He will be responsible for the planning and formulation of major policy programs concerning Indian services through direction of professional staff. He will also advise me on these matters," Thompson indicated.

Krenzke holds a BA in sociology with a minor in business administration from Valparaiso University, Indiana, and a masters degree in social work from the University of Indiana.

He began his career with the Marion County Indiana Juvenile Court as a Probation Officer. After two years, he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a social worker at the Blackfeet Agency. Two years later he accepted an offer to establish a treatment-oriented program for adolescent boys in a residential center --Dakota Boys Ranch, Minot, North Dakota. Starting as a social worker, he became executive director in charge of the overall program including public relations and fund raising.

In August 1960, Krenzke returned to the Bureau of Indian Affairs as supervisory social worker in the Juneau Area Office, Alaska, and in July 1963 he was promoted to Assistant Area Social Worker. In this capacity, he not only undertook the full range of administrative and casework duties in the social services program for the Native peoples of Alaska, he also took the lead in developing philosophy and training a staff in the community development approach to the Bureau's total Alaska program.

Because of his outstanding work in Alaska, Krenzke was selected to be Superintendent of the Cherokee Agency, North Carolina. Cherokee is the largest Federal Indian reservation in the Eastern United States, with programs that include a school kindergarten through grade 12 with 1,300 students, real property management, forestry activities, housing, social services, law and order, employment assistance, a 125-mile road system, and the general administrative and plant management program.

“Although Krenzke has had heavy administrative responsibilities,” said Thompson, "he has not allowed them to overshadow his main responsibility -- working with the tribal government. He had maintained-an unusually good and close relationship with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council and the members of the Cherokee Tribe."

Krenzke is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Academy of Certified Social Workers. He is married to the former Helen Hospers and they have five daughters.

American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut year 'round events that help non-Native Americans appreciate the unusual contributions of those whose home this was before the arrival of the Europeans are now listed in "American Indian Calendar 1974" available from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. 20402 for 65 cents.

It includes such events as annual beaver roundup at Dillingham, Alaska (March 7-11); Cha-Be-Toe Rodeo, Whiteriver, Ariz. (July 4 weekend); Hopi Snake Dances at Sipaulovi, Shongopovi and Hotevilla, Ariz. (August, 3rd week); Navajo Nation Fair at Window Rock, Ariz. (September, 2nd week); and Chief Seattle Days at Suquamish, Wash., (August, 2 days, last weekend of the month).

"American Indians are in 8 position to offer hospitality to a great number of visitors," Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson indicated as he announced the availability of the listing.

"Indian tribes have built motels that incorporate Indian motifs to house visitors to their lands," Thompson said. "In addition, many have campgrounds and arts and crafts outlets and some unusual attractions --such as a donkey train down Grand Canyon, organized hunting parties, and trips to Indian ruins.

Indian reservations are often close to National Parks and National Forests and are exciting places for many travelers to visit," Thompson said.

"American Indian Calendar" includes a list of Bureau of Indian Affairs Area Offices, the states they serve, and their telephone numbers. Since a number of Indian observances depend upon seasonal activities and exact dates cannot be determined in advance, tourists are urged to check with tribes, local Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, and local Chambers of Commerce for specific dates if they are not already indicated in the publication --or if the traveler is building his itinerary around a particular occasion.

The booklet may be ordered by Catalog Number I20.2:C12/2/974. Stock Number 2402-00034.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today the appointment of Clarence Antioquia, 34, Assistant Area Director, Juneau Area Office and a Tlingit Indian of Alaska, to be Area Director at Juneau, Alaska. He has been acting in that capacity since September 1973.

“As matters connected with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska Pipeline come more to the foreground, the already considerable responsibilities of the Juneau post are magnified. I am pleased that the Bureau and the Alaska Natives have a man of Antioquia's caliber for this important post."

Antioquia was graduated from Sitka High School and attended Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka. He has completed a number of governmental executive training courses, including the Bureau's Executive Development Training program. He received outstanding performance ratings in 1965, 1967, and again in 1970.

He began his career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an Employment Assistance Technician following service in the U.S. Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey from May 1958 to February 1963. As an Employment Assistance Technician he served in Anchorage and Juneau and in Seattle, Washington.

In 1965, he became Employment Assistance Technician with the Nome Agency of the Bureau, where he later served as Acting Superintendent for some time. He moved from that position to one of Position Classification Specialist in the Juneau Area Office in 1967. In 1968 he was promoted to Personnel Management Specialist, also at Juneau.

He became Equal Employment Opportunity Representative with the Civil Service Commission in Seattle in 1970 and Assistant Area Director (Administration) in the Bureau's Juneau Area Office in 1972.

“The Juneau Area Office responsible for all BIA activities in Alaska, has 1,200 employees," Thompson indicated, and administers an annual budget in excess of $40 million. It serves approximately 65,000 Alaska Natives and 250 Native villages. Included under its jurisdiction are 52 day schools, two boarding schools, and five field offices. It also operates a 10-ton ship.

Antioquia is married to the former Patricia Myrick, also an Alaska Native, from Kake, Alaska. They have three children: Deanne, 11, Melanie, 8 and Todd, 5.

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton today announced two decisions resolving long standing controversies over Indian rights.

In a controversy between the Fort Mohave Indian Tribe and the Bureau of Land Management over the ownership of 3,500 acres of land near the Colorado River in California, the Solicitor has determined that the Tribe is legally entitled to equitable ownership of the land and the Secretary has signed an order directing the Bureau of Land Management to take prompt action to carry out the decision.

The executive order which created the Indian Hay and Wood Reserve specified that the Reserve would include 9,114 acres. Present surveys include in that area only 5,614 acres. The ruling by the Solicitor determined that this discrepancy resulted from an erroneous survey made in 1928 by the General Land Office.

In another action, the Secretary implemented a Solicitor's opinion determining that the Colville and Spokane Tribes of Indians have exclusive rights to hunt, fish and boat in the "Indian zone" of Lake Roosevelt in Washington.

Lake Roosevelt was created by the impoundment of waters behind Grand Coulee Dam. The lake extends 151 miles up the river. In 1940, Congress authorized the taking of Indian lands on both reservations for this project.

Secretary Morton said the Solicitor has determined that the 1940 Act, while it authorized the extinguishment of Indian ownership to the lands needed for the project, did not authorize any change in reservation boundaries and therefore did not affect the tribes' governmental authority on their reservations.

The 1940 Act preserved the Indian's hunting, fishing and boating rights in the Indian zone.

A national recreational area is presently established which includes the Indian zone. Five facilities--a campground, marina, and boat launching areas--were established in the zone. The opinion announced today does not require the abandonment of these facilities because the land is owned by the United States free of any Indian title. Under the opinion, however, it will be necessary for any person entering the Indian zone for hunting, fishing, or boating to have a tribal permit.

The total visitations at the five facilities are 30,000 visitor days per year, mostly at one campsite, as contrasted to 450,000 visitor days in the entire Lake Roosevelt national recreation area.

Secretary Morton said the decision does not affect Grand Coulee Dam or any activity of the Bureau of Reclamation in the operation of the project, or the navigation lane he has designated contiguous to the Indian zone, and that under the 1940 Act, the Department of the Interior will continue to regulate the protection of fish and wildlife.

Secretary Morton said the tribal leaders have agreed to administer the Indian zone in a manner which will permit equitable use of the zone by Indians and non-Indian alike.