Richard C. Whitesell, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has been appointed Assistant Area Director, Community Services, in the BIA's Phoenix Area Office, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today.
Whitesell has been Superintendent of the Flandreau Indian School at Flandreau, South Dakota.
A former marine, Whitesell was Education Program Administrator at Riverside Indian School in Oklahoma before going to Flandreau. He began
his career as an educator in the Brockton, Montana schools in 1961.
He is a graduate of the North Dakota State College at Dickinson, North Dakota and earned a Masters in Education from South Dakota State University. He completed the Department of Interior's Management Training Program in 1969.
