Gillette exits White House for BIA deputy assistant secretary job

Jodi Gillette, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, is moving to another job within the Obama administration.

Gillette has been serving as an associate director of intergovernmental affairs at the White House since February 2009. She'll now be working as deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

"The work has really just begun," Gillette told McClatchy Newspapers. "It's a wonderful start, but we're by no means finished."

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