Edmund Manydeeds, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has been named Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Great Lakes Agency at Ashland, Wisconsin, Acting Commissioner Raymond v. Butler announced today.
Manydeeds has been at the agency since 1960 and has been the Acting Superintendent the past year.
A World War II veteran, Manydeeds earned both a B.S. and M.S. in Education at North State College, South Dakota.
Manydeeds, 55, began working with the BIA in 1948 as a teacher at the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota.
