Wilson Barber has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, Acting Deputy Commissioner Raymond V. Butler announced today.
Barber, a Navajo, has been Superintendent of the Cheyenne River Agency at Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
Barber, 35, attended the University of New Mexico. He worked for the Navajo Tribe and for the BIA on the Navajo Reservation before going to Cheyenne River in 1975.
His appointment of the Mescalero Reservation in south-central New Mexico becomes effective June 5.
