Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today that John J. Pereau, a Sioux Indian from the Fort Peck Reservation, has been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Crow Creek Agency in South Dakota. Pereau, Economic Development Officer at the agency, has been functioning as the Acting Superintendent since April of this year.
A Marine Corps veteran, Pereau came to work for the BIA in 1960 at the Billings, Montana area office. He was a realty specialist at the Crow and Northern Cheyenne agencies and was the Reservation Programs Officer at Northern Cheyenne before coming to the Crow Creek Agency in 1973.
Pereau, 42, attended the Billings Business College and Eastern Montana College.
