Wyman J. McDonald, a member of the Flathead Indian Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Mescalero Agency in New Mexico. His appointment will be effective March 30.
He has been since 1971 executive director of Tri-State Tribes, Inc., in Billings Montana. This organization has been involved in training and other work with Indian Community Action Programs in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
McDonald, who was born in St. Ignatius, Montana in 1938, is a 1962 graduate of the University of Montana. He has completed the Interior Department's manager development program and taken special courses in industrial and general development at the universities of New Mexico and Arizona State.
A Marine Corps veteran, McDonald has worked with both OEO and EDA in Washington, DC. He has seven years previous experience with the BIA, at which time he served as an employment assistance officer, probation and juvenile officer and tribal affairs assistant.
McDonald is a former chairman of the Red Lake Reservation Community Services Committee and a former member of the Northern Minnesota Human Relations Commission.
