Omer Call Stewart (August 17, 1908 – December 31, 1991) was an American cultural anthropologist and author who worked at the University of Colorado.
He defended Native American land claims and advocated for tribes legal use of peyote.
[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] After the war, in 1945, he took what became a long-term position at University of Colorado in Boulder, including heading the Anthropology department.
[4] He and his wife, Lenore, had four children, Carl, Stephen, Kate, and a daughter who died before him, Ann.