Omer Stewart
American cultural anthropologist (1908-1991)
Omer Call Stewart (August 17, 1908 – December 31, 1991) was an American cultural anthropologist and author who worked at the University of Colorado. He was a student of Alfred L. Kroeber. He defended Native American land claims and advocated for tribes legal use of peyote.
Early life
Stewart was born in Provo, Utah on August 17, 1908, one of seven children of John Riggs Stewart and Esther (née Call) Stewart. He graduated from high school in Salt Lake City and from 1928 to 1930 he went on a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Switzerland and France. In 1932, he graduated from the University of Utah. In 1940, he received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career and military service
Following graduation, Stewart was an educator at the University of Minnesota and University of Texas. He served in the Middle East as an undercover agent and at The Pentagon as an intelligence officer.
After the war, in 1945, he took what became a long-term position at University of Colorado in Boulder, including heading the Anthropology department.
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