March 13 (UPI) -- The National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Shelly Lowe, the first Native American to hold that job, was ousted Wednesday by the Trump administration, according to agency spokesperson Paula Wasley.
Wasley said in an email statement that Lowe left at the "direction" of the president.
She was replaced by Trump-designated NEH's current general counsel as acting chair until a permanent replacement can be appointed.
At the National Endowment for the Arts, NEH's sister agency, Maria Rosario Jackson resigned three days before Trump's inauguration. That agency is being run by interim chair Mary Anne Carter, who served in the first Trump administration.
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