J. Kenneth Adams, a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, has been named Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency at Sisseton, South Dakota.
Adams has been the Administrative Officer at the agency. He has been serving as the acting superintendent for the past ten months.
An army veteran, Adams first worked for the Federal Government in 1952 as an accountant with the Veterans Administration. He came to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1956 as Property and Supply Officer at the Crow Agency in Montana. He has since worked in the Minneapolis Area Office, the Fort Totten Agency in North Dakota and the Southern Ute Agency in Colorado.
For two years, 1971-73, he was Executive Director of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribe.
