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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Walker Named BIA's Southwest Region Director


Associated Press
      The Bureau of Indian Affairs announced Thursday it has named William Tandy Walker as the director of the agency's southwest region.
    Walker, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, had been serving as the acting regional director since September 2008. The region oversees nine BIA agencies serving 25 federally recognized tribes in New Mexico, Colorado and Texas.
    The BIA says Walker is currently on a 120-day detail as the acting deputy bureau director of the agency's Office of Justice Services in Washington, D.C.
    Walker began his BIA career as a soil conservationist for the Land Operations Branch of the Fort Apache Agency in Arizona in 1992. In 2004, he was selected as the superintendent of the BIA's Mescalero Agency in New Mexico.
   

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