Kent Carter

KENT CARTER is a historian and archivist who served as regional administrator of the National Archives and Records Administration Southwest Region in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893–1914.

Carter holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Cincinnati and joined NARA in 1973. He is a recognized authority on federal records relating to Native American history, particularly the Five Civilized Tribes. His publications include contributions to the Chronicles of Oklahoma and an entry on the Dawes Commission in the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.

Kent Carter’s books are published by Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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