Bent, George, 1843-1918

LC control no.	nr 95005867
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bent, George, 1843-1918 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bent, Capt., 1843-1918 Ho-my-ike, 1843-1918
Other standard no.	56725635 Q1506973 0000000063076767
Associated country	United States Confederated Tribes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River Confederate States of America
Birth date	1843
Death date	1918-05-19
Place of birth	Bent's Fort (Colo.) Otero County (Colo.)
Place of death	Washita (Okla.) Caddo County (Okla.)
Profession or occupation	Soldiers Warriors Indian interpreters
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Found in	Life of George Bent, 1968. RLIN, 2/14/95 (hdg.: Bent, George, 1843-1918; usage: Capt. Bent) Ethical questions in name authority control, 2019: page 88 (George Bent, the son of William Bent, a white trader, and Owl Woman, William Bent's first wife, has an naf authority record, but it contains only one form of his name, not his Cheyenne name, Ho-my-ike, which translates as "Beaver") Wikipedia, February 23, 2021 (George Bent, also named Ho--my-ike in Cheyenne (Cheyenne people, 1843 - May 19, 1918), was a Cheyenne who became a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War and waged war against Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward. He was the mixed-race son of Owl Woman, daughter of a Cheyenne chief, and the American William Bent; He identified as Cheyenne. After the Indian Wars, Bent worked for the United States government as an interpreter. Starting in 1870 with the US Indian agent to the Cheyenne and Arapaho, he lived on the reservation in present-day Oklahoma, where he stayed to the end of his life; born Otero County, Colorado near present-day La Junta; born at Bent's Fort; died Washita, Caddo County, Oklahoma)
Associated language	eng