Omer Stewart
Omer Call Stewart (August 17, 1908 – December 31, 1991) was an American
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.[1][3] He graduated from high school in Salt Lake City[1] 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.[1][3] In 1932, he graduated from the University of Utah. In 1940, he received his doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Career and military service
Following graduation, Stewart was an educator at the
After the war, in 1945, he took what became a long-term position at
Personal life
He and his wife, Lenore, had four children, Carl, Stephen, Kate, and a daughter who died before him, Ann. Stewart died on December 31, 1991, at the
Publications
- Edward Winslow Gifford; Julian Haynes Steward; Omer Call Stewart (1940). Nevada Shoshoni. University of California Press.
- Omer Call Stewart (1951). Burning and natural vegetation in the United States. American Geographical Society.
- Omer Call Stewart (1943). Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography. University of California Press.
- Omer Call Stewart (1955). Fire as the First Great Force Employed by Man.
- Omer Call Stewart (1964). Tribal Distributions and Boundaries in the Great Basin.
- Martha C. Knack; Omer Call Stewart (1984). As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0-87417-334-5.
- Omer Call Stewart (1987). Peyote Religion: A History. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2457-5.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Death: Omer Stewart". Deseret News. January 14, 1992. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ The lives and legacies of Omer Stewart and Joe Ben Wheat October 26, 2011 CU Boulder Libraries
- ^ a b c "Omer Call Stewart". Early Mormon Missionaries - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-134-81893-8.
Further reading
- Thomas C. Maroukis (November 8, 2012). The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-8596-5.
- Stacy B. Schaefer (November 15, 2015). Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5622-2.
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