Walter R. Mills, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Colorado River Agency at Parker, Arizona, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has announced.
Mills, 43, has been an Indian Self-Determination Specialist in the Phoenix Area Office the past two years. He formerly served as Administrative Manager of the Phoenix Indian School and, earlier, of the Hopi Agency at Keams Canyon, Arizona. He began his career with BIA in 1971 as an instructor at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A graduate of the Haskell Indian Institute, Mills worked in private industry in Oklahoma and Texas from 1963 to 1971.
