Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10

This volume covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica.Alfonso Ortiz was a native of San Juan Pueblo whose primary research focus was his own people. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, a MacArthur fellow, and a lifelong advocate for Native Americans and their communities.Part of the acclaimed encyclopedia of native North American peoples, the book has 56 chapters on non-Puebloan peoples and prehistory of the Southwest.