George Bent
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: A warrior, hunter, diplomat, interpreter, and source for the nation's first generation of cultural anthropologists of Native Americans, George Bent participated in some of the nineteenth century's most important events and lived to tell of them well into the twentieth century.
George Bent was the son of William Bent —one of the most famous white traders of the day—and his Southern Cheyenne wife, Owl Woman . Through the first ten years of his life, he moved with his family between the trading posts built by his father along the Arkansas...
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