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.
