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Louis R. Bruce Jr. (1905 or 1906 – May 21, 1989) was a politician and indigenous rights activist who served as commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1969 to 1973.

Early life
Louis R. Bruce Jr. was born in 1905 or 1906, on the Onondaga Reservation, to Lou Bruce, a Mohawk former professional baseball player, and an Oglala mother. He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1929, obtaining an athletic scholarship at Syracuse University. He graduated from Syracuse in 1930 with a business administration and psychology degree, marrying Anna Jennings Wikoff, whom he met at Cazenovia, the same year.

Personal life
Bruce had three children, Katherine Louise Huxtable, Donald Kenneth Bruce, and Charles Wikoff Bruce. He died of cancer and heart disease at the Crystal City Nursing Center in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 82 or 83.