Hiram E Olney, an enrolled member of the Yakima Indian Tribe, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Yakima Agency, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today.
Olney, whose appointment was effective February 15, has been superintendent of the Fort Hall Agency in Idaho. The Yakima Agency is at Toppenish, Washington.
A graduate of the Haskell Indian School at Lawrence, Kansas, Olney began his career with BIA in 1951 as an Accounting Clerk in the Phoenix Area Office. He has worked at several BIA agency offices in jobs of increasing responsibility. He was the Administrative Manager at the Prime Ridge Agency in South Dakota before moving to Fort Hall in 1972
