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David L. Baldwin, 38, an Osage Indian and Superintendent of the Yankton Agency, Wagner, S. Dak.., Bureau of Indian Affairs since 1969, was today named Superintendent of the Osage Agency of the Bureau 'whose headquarters are at Pawhuska, Okla. His appointment will take effect July 25.

He replaces John Pappan, Superintendent for three years, who passed away this spring.

Baldwin, Born in Ponca City, Okla., received his B.A. from Washburn University, Topeka, Kans., in 1956. Before joining the Bureau he taught in Kansas Public Schools for three years.

He entered the Bureau in 1962 as an Education Specialist at Fort Hall, Ida., and became an Employment Assistance Officer at that same agency in 1963. He was reassigned to the Umatilla, Ore. Agency of the Bureau as a Community Services Officer in 1966, and then to Yankton Agency, S. Dak. as Superintendent in 1969.

He is married and the father of two sons and a daughter.

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton today announced the appointment of John O. Crow as Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Since 1966, Crow has served as Associate Director of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Previously, he had lengthy and varied experience in the Indian Bureau.

Secretary Morton said: The appointment of John O. Crow will be a key factor in strengthening management of the Bureau and, most important, improving the lot of the American Indian."

The Secretary added that Crow will be directly responsible for running the internal operation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Indian Affairs is the largest Bureau in the Department of the Interior. It has 76 field agencies serving more than 250 tribal groups. They range from “Seminoles of the Florida Everglades to the Eskimo villages of Alaska.

Crow said he views his new appointment as an opportunity to help put into effect the directions and policies set forth in President Nixon's historic message on Indian Affairs to Congress in July 1970. The message urged a policy of self-determination without termination" for the First Americans, and recommended that BIA become a service-oriented Bureau that would encourage Indians to take a larger role in managing their own affairs.

Fifty-nine, Crow is one-fourth Cherokee, the youngest of eight children, and grew up in Commerce, a small mining town in Oklahoma. He attended the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and later played professional football with the Boston Redskins, now the Washington Redskins.

He holds the Career Service Award of the National Civil Service League and the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of the Interior.

Crow has served as Superintendent of a number of Indian reservations, and is also experienced in top management of the Indian Bureau --having served in several executive positions, including that of Deputy Commissioner and Acting Commissioner during the early and mid-1960's.

Commissioner Louis Bruce said: "I feel fortunate that we have been able to get John Crow as my Deputy. He is knowledgeable, experienced, and dedicated, with proven ability."

A roll to determine the members of the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians eligible to share in awards totaling $237,127.82 in land claims funds is being prepared by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Area Office in Aberdeen, S. D., according to Louis R. Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

The money comes from awards in settlement of Indian Claims Commission Dockets Nos. 18-A, 113 and 191 for the Pembina Band's one third interest in 7,488,280 acres of land in northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota, ceded under the treaty of October 2, 1863 (13 Stat. 667).

Funds to cover the awards were appropriated June 9, 1964 (78 Stat. 213). An Act of Congress July 29, 1971 (85 Stat. 158) authorized the use of the money and directed that the roll be prepared.

Persons who believe they are eligible to share in the awards may obtain application forms and instructions from the Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Aberdeen Area Office, 820 Main Street, Aberdeen, South Dakota .57401. Applications must be filed with the Area Director and must be postmarked no later than midnight, March l2, 1972.

Those who may be eligible to share in the awards are Pembina Chippewa Indians:

1. Who file an application for enrollment within the time specified.
2. Who were born on or prior to and were living on July 29, 1971.
3. Who are lineal descendants of members of the Pembina Band as it was constituted in 1863, except for persons in the following categories, who shall not be enrolled:

• Those who are not United States Citizens.
• Those who are members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.
• Those who participated in the Mississippi, Pillager, and Lake Winnibigoshish Chippewa Band awards under the provisions of the Act of September 27, 1967 (81 Stat. 230).

“The machinery we now have for carrying out our trusteeship responsibilities to Indians is inadequate," Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton told a Senate subcommittee today. He urged prompt action on a bill that would establish an Indian Trust Counsel Authority.

Secretary Morton's remarks were presented in a hearing before the subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. The bill under review is one of several urged by President Nixon in a 1970 legislative package designed to strengthen Indian rights and opportunities within the framework of a continuing Federal trusteeship of Indian resources.

The Indian Trust Counsel Authority proposal would establish an independent entity to function as advocate of the trust resource rights and interests of Indians "untrammeled by other consideration of public policy," the Secretary said. It would also provide legal services to Indians comparable to those a private individual could expect to obtain from his private attorney. It would not preclude Indian hiring of private legal aid.

"Both in appearance and in fact, and both for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice, there is frequently an inherent conflict of interest between the requirements of the (Indian) trusteeship and the broader responsibility to the people of the United States," Secretary Morton advised the subcommittee.

In the same testimony, he also called attention to additional proposals recommended by the Administration, which, as a package, he said would enable Indians to "protect and preserve their resources, raise their standard of living, and commence the cure of other ills they suffer."

These measures include a plan for additional financing aid to Indian tribes and groups, and authority to transfer control of Bureau of Indian Affairs operations to Indian governing bodies or Indian groups.

John H. Artichoker, 41, Superintendent of the Colorado River Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, is the new Area Director of the Phoenix Area Office of the Bureau, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce announced today.

He replaces W. Wade Head. Head retired after 37 years of government service and a career in which he served successively as Bureau of Indian Affairs Area Director in Anadarko, Okla., Gallup, N. M., and Phoenix.

Artichoker, an Oglala Sioux Indian, will head one of three regional offices in the Southwest. The Southwest has the largest Indian population in the nation. His appointment became effective June 27.

"We are fortunate to have John Artichoker in this position," said the Commissioner in making the announcement. "He has served as Superintendent of three Bureau agencies -- Northern Cheyenne, Montana; Papago, Arizona; as well as Colorado River, Arizona -- and has diversified experience as an administrator, educator, and program manager."

Artichoker holds a B.S. and M.A. degree in education from the University of South Dakota. He became Director of Indian Education for the State of South Dakota in 1951. He joined the federal government in 1962 as Tribal Affairs Officer for the Billings Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Later that year he transferred to the Division of Indian Health, Aberdeen, S. Dak., as tribal relations officer.

He returned to the Bureau in 1963 as Superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Agency. After three years he was transferred to the Superintendence of the Papago Agency, where he remained until his reassignment in 1968 to the Colorado River Agency.

Artichoker received the Junior Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Men's Award in 1964 and the Indian Achievement Award in 1965.

He was born in Pierre, S. Dak. and is married and the father of two sons.

Alonzo T. Spang, 38, director of Indian Studies Program and assistant professor at the University of Montana and a member of r the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe has been named superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquartered at Lame Deer, Mont. He will assume the post within the coming month.

Spang replaces John White, who has taken the position of Commonly Development Officer in the Billings Area Office of the Bureau.

Spang is former provost and dean of students of Navajo Community College, the first college to be established on an Indian reservation and to be owned by an American Indian tribe. He has also served as director of education at Arizona State University. ,

The new Northern Cheyenne Superintendent has a Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Montana College, Billings, and a master’s degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz. He was director of the Cook Christian training School, Tempe, Ariz., and taught in the Bureau of Indian Affairs school at Busby, Mont.

Spang is married and the father of a daughter.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce today announced the award of a $1,040,677 contract to Skousen Corporation, Albuquerque, N. M. to build 10.838 miles of road on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. It 'will open up a recreation complex at stone Lake that is to include a 20 room lodge, trailer camp, boat docks, and wild game park.

The contract is for grading, draining, plant-mix bituminous base and seal coat surfacing of a road beginning at New Mexico state Road 537 and going to stone Lake. It is scheduled for completion late in 1972.

The 13,620 acre enclosed wild Game Park and improvements in the airport facilities at Dulce, N. M. that are part of the Stone Lake Recreation Area project have already been completed.

Now under construction is the lodge, which will include dining facilities and a gift shop. The lodge will be completely air conditioned and self-contained with its own sewage system, water supply system, and bake shop. The stone Lake Recreation Complex is financed by the Economic Development Administration.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce today announced the appointment of William L. Benjamin, 54, an enrolled member of the Wisconsin Band of Chippewa Indians, to the post of Superintendent of the Fort Peck, Montana, and Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He assumed his duties October 31.

Benjamin replaces Anson A. Baker who has been transferred to the position of Superintendent of the Crow, Montana, and Agency of the Bureau. He comes to the Fort Peck Agency from the Wind River, Wyoming, and Agency of the Bureau where he was supervisory civil engineer.

Benjamin was born at Winifred, Montana, and attend the university of North Dakota and Montana State University. He received a superior performance award for Bureau service in 1969.

Benjamin began his career with the Bureau in 1948 as an engineering aid at the Blackfeet, Montana, and Agency. He then served as soil conservation engineer and agricultural engineer with the same agency. He moved to the Hind River Reservation in 1962 as a civil engineer and stayed with that agency until he was appointed to his new post.

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton announced today his approval of organizational changes in the Bureau of Indian Affairs that have 'been developed since Secretary Morton himself took the first step last July 23rd in naming John O. Crow to the re-activated position of Deputy Commissioner.

"The organization plan is one designed to tighten administrative management of the Bureau's operations in order to get the most mileage from the Federal dollars being spent for Indian programs," the Secretary said.

The plan, which eliminates the two Associate Commissioner positions created two years ago, places a series of major program offices under direct responsibility of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner. It also calls for a direct line from the newly created Office of Indian Water Rights to the Commissioner, who in turn reports directly to the Secretary on Indian water issues.

Nominations of individuals to the key posts, some of which were previously named as top choices by Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Louis R. Bruce, are as follows.

Office of Education Programs: JAMES HAWKINS, as Director. He has been serving for several months as head of this, the largest BIA program in terms of staffing and budget. Office of

Economic Development: ERNEST STEVENS, an Oneida Indian, as Director. He moves laterally from the post of Director of Community Services. The Economic Development Office is responsible for resources development and management, including industrial and tourism development.

Office of Community Services: FLORE LEKANOV, an Aleut who has been serving as Deputy Director will take over in an acting capacity until a new director can be named.

Office of Management Systems: HAROLD COX, a Creek Indian, as Director, moving laterally from the abolished post of Associate Commissioner for Support Services.

Office of Engineering Construction: ALEXANDER MCNABB, as Director. He moves laterally from the position of Director of Operating Services, a post that has been eliminated in the new organization plan.

Office of Administrative Services: CARL CORNELIUS, an Oneida Indian, as Director, promoted from a previous post as Director of Management Services, a sub-office under the general administrative arm of the bureau.

Office of Fiscal Plans and Management: JOHN SYKES to be Director of this operation, which. Incorporates various fiscal and planning operations formerly fragmented.

Office of Audit: operation. MILTON BOYD, who remains as Director of this Office of Inspections: MAURICE JOYCE, who remains as director of this operation.

Office of Planning Research: ROBERT GAJDYS, who moves laterally to Director of this post from the abolished position of Deputy Director of Operating Services.

Office of Legislative Development: HERSCHEL SAHMAUNT, a Kiowa Indian, will serve as acting Director of this function until a director has been selected.

Office of Communications: This function will combine public information, Congressional relations and intergovernmental relations until a director can be named, the present Acting Public Information Officer, THOMAS OXENDINE, will also serve as acting Director of the Office of Communications.

Indian Water Rights Office: HANS WALKER, a Mandan-Sioux, was previously named by Commissioner Bruce and Secretary Morton as the man to head this office, the mission of which is to serve as advocate for Indians on water rights issues.

In addition to making these selections, Secretary Horton also named HARRY RAINBOLT, a Pima Indian, to be Director of Southeast Agencies, a post similar to that of an area directorship in that it oversees BIA operations on several reservations--the Mississippi Choctaw, the North Carolina Cherokee, and the Florida Seminole and Miccosukkee Reservations.

He also concurred in Commissioner Bruce's selection of WILLIAM FREEMAN to be a Special Assistant to the Commissioner, and JAMES HENA, a Tesuque-Pima, to be Executive Assistant.

Further announcements regarding posts filled at present on an acting capacity will be made in the near future.

I am highly gratified to see the enactment of legislation that provides funds for construction of facilities for the Navajo Community College. Of This school is unique as a community development aide. The new construction will culminate a long-time dream of many Navajo leaders.

The development of the Navajo Community College is a truly significant achievement for the Navajo people. What has been done in planning and implementing this unique educational program is illustrative of self-determination working at its best.

The special value of this program, as I see it, is its responsiveness to the needs of the community. Navajo Community College is not just another academic institution; it is, rather, a rich community resource of knowledge and expertise which can contribute in many ways to the betterment of the Navajo community. For some students the school will provide the academic foundations which will enable them to go on to other colleges or universities. For many others it will offer much needed vocational-technical training or adult education programs oriented towards the development of work abilities-- with consequent economic improvements for the total community.

Note: The Navajo Community College Act, signed by President Nixon December 15, 1971, authorizes an appropriation of $5, 500, 000 for construction of permanent facilities for the reservation- based school, which is administered by the Navajos.