Frank Grouard

Frank Grouard was a Scout and interpreter for General George Crook during the American Indian War of 1876.

Grouards origins are the center of much speculation and controversy. He is variously described as having been American Indian, halfIndian, FrenchCreole or halfBlack, the son of the early Black American Fur Company mountain man, John Brazeau. Grouard himself, in his biography dictated to journalist Joseph DeBarthe in 1891, was born in the Society Islands in the south Pacific Ocean, the second of three sons born to Benjamin Franklin Grouard, an American Mormon missionary, and a Polynesian woman.

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