NOUN
- a representative of the federal government to American Indian tribes (especially on Indian reservations)
How To Use Indian agent In A Sentence
- Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
- An Indian agent, or superintendent, resides with them; and a steamboat, called the Goderich, has made one or two trips to it, and up to the head of Lake Huron, last summer. Canada and the Canadians Volume I
- As an Indian agent in New Mexico in the 1850s, Carson had to balance competing desires and needs of Anglos, Apaches, Hispanos, Navajos, Pueblos, and Utes.
- The department established two agency farms near the proposed reserves and in 1880 appointed an Indian agent at Fort Walsh.
