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Indian agent is the title of a position in Canada mandated by the Indian Act of that country. An Indian agent was the chief administrator for Indian affairs in their respective districts, although the title now is largely in disuse in preference to "government agent". The powers of the Indian agent held sway over the lives of all First Nations people in their jurisdictions. Both Indian Act and government agent duties were fused in the original colonial title of gold commissioner, which encompassed both agencies as well as the duties of magistrate, policeman, coroner and surveyor.
Notable Indian agents in Canada included Henry Ross Halpin, Ebenezer McColl, and Alexander McKee.
This title was also used in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries for individuals authorized to interact with Native American tribes on behalf of the U.S. government; see Indian agent.
In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with Native Americans tribes on behalf of the U.S. government.
Indian Agent is a 1948 Western film starring Tim Holt as a cowboy trying to convince Indians not to go on the warpath due to the activities of a corrupt Indian agent.
Usage examples of "indian agent".
But he is an experienced Indian agent and, no offense, you don't make a very convincing bad man.
I'll allow an Indian Agent will believe most anything, but you'd last less than five minutes when the elders got to asking what happened.
He'd been at Fort Lincoln, preparing for his precious Sioux campaign, when he'd suddenly been summoned to Washington to give evidence against Belknap, the Secretary for War, no less, who was in a great scandal because of bribes his wife was said to have taken from some post trader or Indian agent (I wasn't clear on the details).
The good intentions of an Indian agent three years afterward, when he arranged for the Comanches to ride out under military escort on a final buffalo hunt, and no buffalo remained.
About the same time, Captain Clark was appointed a general of the territorial militia and Indian agent for that department.
After the war, Carson settled in Taos, New Mexico, where he served from 1853 to 1861 as Indian agent to the Utes, earning a reputation as one of very few genuinely competent, honest, and compassionate officials.