James G. Swan
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Indian agent
In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with Native American tribes on behalf of the U.S. government.-Indian agents:*Leander Clark was agent for the Sac and Fox in Iowa beginning in 1866....
in what is now Washington state, U.S.A.
United States
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, who is known for his work collecting artifacts and for writing the first ethnography of the Makah tribal group, among whom he lived.
Sources
- Doig, IvanIvan DoigIvan Doig is an American novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. After the death of his mother Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer...
(1980) Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- McDonald, Lucile (1972) Swan among the Indians: Life of James G. Swan, 1818–1900. Portland, Oregon: Binfords and Mort.
External links
- "Swan, James G. (1818–1900)". By Kit Oldham. HistoryLink.org. January 9, 2003.