Vincent Little has been appointed Director of the Portland Area for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Acting Commissioner Raymond V. Butler announced today.
The area includes the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. There are eight agency offices in the area.
Little, a member of the Mohave Tribe, has been Superintendent of the Northern Idaho Agency at Lapwai, Idaho.
He began work with BIA as a teacher at the Phoenix Indian School in 1957. He was enrollment officer and tribal operations officer at the Western Washington Agency from 1963 to 1967. He then worked as Assistant Superintendent at the Northern Idaho Agency, was an Area Field Representative at the Hoopa Agency in California and, from 1970 to 1973, was the Education Program Administrator at Phoenix Indian School.
Little, 46, is a U. S. Army veteran. He graduated from Arizona State University in 1957 and received a Masters degree there in 1961. He completed Interior's Departmental Management Program in 1963.
Little was named Arizona Indian of the Year in 1971.
