Show Parrell Fleming gets North Carolina post Darrell Fleming of the Uintah-Ouray Indian Agency at Ft Duchesne received word this week from the Secretary of the Interior of liis transfer to the Cherokee Indian Agency at Nl C. will be superintendent Fleming has headed the agency since April and to that was head of the Fort Belknap Agency in The Flemings and their will leave around September 15 for their new Their will attend college in Montana this Twenty years ago Fleming visited the Cherokee Agency an has not seen it since that Although he is not sure of the exact Indian population he commented that there are more Indians but less land than on the Uintah-Ouray Was Tribe The now living in North Carolina are descendants of a hardy remnant of the Tribe who took refuge in the mountains during the push for land Andrew adventures in that region in Because white men wanted their the majority of the Cherokees were to Oklahoma and placed on reservations A few hid for years in the refusing to leave their Their descendants now comprise the North Carolina Cherokee Fleming is of Cherokee r descent and attended the Haskell Indian Institute in He has been with the bureau since The agency at Cherokee will be similar to that at Fort Duchesne with the exception that their program will not be The agency is to provide trustee management for the It Is located approximately 60 miles from a city of around and is just outside the Great Smoky Moun- See back page I Fleming from page tain National Park in a heavily-wooded Fleming's transfer was the result of a recommendation by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Interior The announcement was made in Washington via the Phoenix Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Upon Fleming's Administrative Llewelyn Kingsley will assume the duties of Acting |