A full-blooded Navajo Indian, Wilson Barber, Jr., has been appointed Superintendent of the BIA Cheyenne River Agency at Eagle Butte, South Dakota, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today. His appointment will be effective December 7.
Barber, 34, has been Realty Officer at the Eastern Navajo Agency in New Mexico. He succeeds Thomas Claymore who has retired.
Barber worked for the Navajo Tribe as a Department Supervisor before taking a position with the BIA Navajo Area Office in 1967.
