Designation of new Indian Bureau superintendents at the Fort Belknap Agency, Harlem, Mont., and the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
Darrell Fleming, who has been superintendent at Fort Belknap for nearly five years, will take over the Utah post April 13 replacing John O. Crow who transferred to the Bureau’s Washington office as a program officer March 24. At Fort Belknap Mr. Fleming will be succeeded April 5, by Howard Dushane who has been program officer in the area office at Portland, Oreg., since 1955.
All three men are of Indian descent and all received part of their education at the Haskell Indian Institute, Lawrence, Kansas.
Mr. Fleming entered the Indian Service in 1933 as a clerical assistant at the Crow Agency in Montana. Over the years since that time he has served in positions of steadily increasing responsibility at Indian agencies in South Dakota, North Dakota, Florida, Minnesota, Arizona, and Washington. Immediately before taking over as Fort Belknap superintendent in 1952, he was for nine months an accountant at the area office in Billings, Mont. He was born at Bernice, Okla., in 1911.
A veteran of 23 years’ service with the Bureau, Mr. Dushane spent the first 16 years of his career on· assignments in Arizona. After entering the service at Valentine, Ariz., in 1934, he remained in this location in positions of increasing responsibility until 1944 when he transferred to the Fort Apache Agency in the same state as personnel clerk. Five years later he was appointed chief clerk at Hopi Agency, Keams Canyon, Ariz. After one year in this spot he transferred to Hoopa, Calif., as district agent and in 1952 was designated as program officer in the area office at Sacramento where he remained until his assignment to Portland in 1955.
