Appointment of John H. Artichoker, former director of Indian education for the state of South Dakota, as superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Agency, Lame Deer, Mont., effective September 8, 1963, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
An Oglala Sioux Indian, Mr. Artichoker was born at Pierre, S. Dak., in 1930 and holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in education from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. For the past seven months he has been tribal affairs officer for the United States Public Health Service at Aberdeen, S. Dak. In 1962 he held a similar position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Billings, Mont. Prior to that he was for over 10 years director of Indian education for the State government of South Dakota. He is the author of several articles on Indian education.
At Lame Deer, Mr. Artichoker succeeds Don Y. Jensen, who recently became superintendent of Cherokee Agency, Cherokee, N. C.
