Reverend Webster Two Hawk, Director (1974-1976)

Webster Two Hawk, Two Kettle Sioux, was born in 1930 at White River, South Dakota. He attended elementary school at White River and graduated from Todd County High School. Two Hawk also attended the Hare Episcopal School for Boys in Mission, South Dakota. He received his B.A. degree in Business from the University of South Dakota in 1952; his B.D. degree from Bexley Hall Seminary, Gambier, Ohio in 1957 and his D.D. degree from Huron College, Huron, South Dakota in 1971. He also received an honorary degree of Doctorate of Humane Letters from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Two Hawk enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1953 and served as a paratrooper at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and in Southeast Asia during the Korean War.

Two Hawk has served as an Episcopal priest since 1957. During the period 1962 to 1966, he was director of St. Elizabeth's Mission Home on the Standing Rock Reservation. He also served as chaplain of the South Dakota National Guard. In 1969 he was elected president of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the following year, president of the United Sioux Tribes. He was elected president for a two-year term to the National Chairmen's Association in 1972. He was appointed by President Nixon to serve on the National Committee of Indian Opportunities in 1972. From 1974-1976, he was director of the Institute of Indian Studies, the University of South Dakota. He is presently serving as the tribal affairs officer, Indian Health Service, Aberdeen, South Dakota. In addition, he is pastor of the Episcopal Church in Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

[Reprinted from Who's Who Among the Sioux (1988)]

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