Omer Stewart

Stewart was born in Provo, Utah on August 17, 1908, one of seven children of John Riggs Stewart and Esther (née Call) Stewart.{{Cite web |url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/missionary/individual/omer-call-stewart-1908?lang=eng |title=Omer Call Stewart |website=Early Mormon Missionaries - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |access-date=May 30, 2018}} 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.

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. He was an expert on Native American culture, particularly regarding the use of peyote in religious rituals across Native American tribes. He testified in trials as an expert witness regarding non-payment for appropriate tribal lands by the government and peyote use. Stewart was a member of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Society of American Archaeology, and American Anthropological Association. He retired from the university in 1973. He continued to conduct research for the rest of his life. An archive of his papers are held at the University of Colorado Libraries.{{cite book|author=Lee S. Dutton|title=Anthropological Resources: A Guide to Archival, Library, and Museum Collections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcbIgOCqreIC&pg=PA100|date=May 13, 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-81893-8|page=100}}

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 Boulder Community Hospital.

• {{cite book|author1=Edward Winslow Gifford|author2=Julian Haynes Steward|author3=Omer Call Stewart|title=Nevada Shoshoni|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VM1StAEACAAJ|year=1940|publisher=University of California Press}}
• {{cite book|author=Omer Call Stewart|title=Burning and natural vegetation in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZxynQAACAAJ|year=1951|publisher=American Geographical Society}}
• {{cite book|author=Omer Call Stewart|title=Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpqItgEACAAJ|year=1943|publisher=University of California Press}}
• {{cite book|author=Omer Call Stewart|title=Fire as the First Great Force Employed by Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtTyPgAACAAJ|year=1955|publisher=}}
• Omer Call Stewart (written in 1957, published in 2002). [https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=H9qrSE1AXaUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&ots=bQz6mGF7ny&sig=b4zkAQKELjjFuiJ7-Yp327ltcrY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Forgotten fires: Native Americans and the transient wilderness.] University of Oklahoma Press. {{ISBN|0-8061-3423-2}}
• {{cite book|author=Omer Call Stewart|title=Tribal Distributions and Boundaries in the Great Basin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pU6_XwAACAAJ|year=1964}}
• {{cite book|author1=Martha C. Knack|author2=Omer Call Stewart|title=As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhQ19RjYnCQC|year=1984|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-334-5}}
• {{cite book|author=Omer Call Stewart|title=Peyote Religion: A History|url=https://archive.org/details/peyotereligionhi0000stew|url-access=registration|year=1987|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-2457-5}}

• Native American Church

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• {{cite book|author=Thomas C. Maroukis|title=The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAcxVfp5cZsC&pg=PA247|date=November 8, 2012|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-8596-5}}
• {{cite book|author=Stacy B. Schaefer|title=Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tSoCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA248|date=November 15, 2015|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-5622-2}}

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