Native Peoples of the Southwest Negotiating Land, Water, and Ethnicities

Nathan Allen was a member of the Akimel and Tohono O'odham tribes of Southern Arizona. He attended Central Arizona College and the University of Arizona. He served the O'odham on various tribal boards and committees. He was serving on the Governor's Archaeology Advisory Commission at the time of his death. Because he was brought up in a traditional way, he assisted other O'odham in their search for a place in both worlds. Mr. Allen was a published poet and writer. His works have been published in journals for Native American Studies across the country and in various magazines in the state of Arizona Kurt F. Anschuetz is an archaeologist and anthropologist. He serves as the Program Director of the Rio Grande Foundation for Communities and Cultural Landscapes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Foundation projects include work with contemporary Pueblo people in the northern Rio Grande Valley in identifying, documenting, and interpreting the field work of their late pre-Columbian and early Historic period ancestors. Dr. Anschuetz also consults with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of Justice to prepare archaeological testimony for use in water adjudication cases on behalf of various Pueblo communities. Throughout both his Foundation and consulting work, Dr. Anschuetz has shared valuable insights with the Pueblo people about their traditional farming practices, and they have provided Dr. Anschuetz with opportunities to conduct research at archaeological field complexes that otherwise are not accessible to noncommunity members Roger Anyon is employed by Pima County, Tucson, Arizona. During the past two decades he has worked on various cultural resources projects with a number of southwestern tribes, including the Zuni, Hopi, Taos, and Hualapai. Between 1985 and 1996, he was the Director of the Pueblo of Zuni Archaeology Program and Zuni Heritage and Historic Preservation Office. Mr. Anyon is presently a member of the Smithsonian Institution Native American Repatriation Review Committee. Between 1992 and 1995 he served on the Society for American Archaeology Executive Committee. He has participated in archaeological research projects in the southwestern United States, Italy, and England. He is author of a number of books and peer reviewed articles David Brugge is a retired anthropologist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His principal employers have included the Unitarian Service Committee, the Navajo Nation, and the National Park Service Adrian Bustamante is Associate Professor of Southwest Studies at Ft. Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. The title of his dissertation is "Los Hispanos: Ethnicity and Social Change in New Mexico." His primary research interests are the cultures of the Southwest with a focus on the Spanish/Mexican culture T.J. Ferguson works for Heritage Resources Management Consultants in Tucson, Arizona. He earned a Masters of Community and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. For the past 25 years, Dr. Ferguson has conducted research on southwestern archaeology, history, and land use, focusing on the western pueblos Paul Fish is curator of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Arizona State University in 1976. His research interests include settlement patterns and emerging political complexity in southwestern United States, northern Mexico and coastal Brazil Suzanne K. Fish is Associate Curator of Archaeology and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include ethnobotany, traditional agriculture, political configurations of middle range societies, and southwestern United States and Mexico Angelo Joaquin, Jr. was formerly the Executive Director of Native Seeds/Search in Tucson, Arizona. He is also a member of the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation. He grew up in Florence, Arizona, and he credits his father for giving him the understanding, respect, and appreciation for his Indian ancestry early on in his life when he used to accompany his father on his trips throughout the reservation to play O'odham social dance music. Mr. Joaquin is dedicated to working with native growers. Seeds represent a connection to the past and Indian ethnicity as well as an important tool for conservation and the health and wellness of his people Frances Levine is the Division Head of Arts and Sciences at Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches classes in New Mexico history and the ethnohistory of the Pueblo and Hispanic communities of the Southwest. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from Southern Methodist University. Her doctoral research examined historic settlement and land use on three Pecos River land grants in New Mexico. She has served as an expert witness in land and water use adjudications, testifying on behalf of the State of New Mexico and numerous acequia commissions. She has been a consultant to Pueblo communities on studies relating to traditional use lands Sylvia Rodriguez is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on interethnic relations in the United States-Mexico borderlands, particularly the Upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. She has published articles on ethnic relations and tourism, land and water issues, and ritual expressions of identity Marianne L. Stoller is Professor of Anthropology (retired) Colorado College. She has written extensively about Mexican land grants, water rights, and Pueblo-Hispanic-Anglo relationships. She is a past President of the American Society for Ethnohistory and her research combines the keen insights of history with the cross-cultural approach of anthropology Maria Varela is a rural planner and community organizer who, since 1963, has worked with African American, Mexican American and Native American rural communities committed to creating or recreating sustainable economies. In 1990, Varela was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her life's work including the founding of Ganados del Valle and Tierra Wools in the remote mountains of northern New Mexico. Ms. Varela is on the faculty at the Community and Regional Planning Department in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. She is co-author of Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities published in 1992 by Island Press. In 1997-98 Varela was awarded the Hulbert Endowed Chair of the South-western Studies Department at Colorado College and continues there as adjunct professor. Currently Ms. Varela is the owner of The Rural Resources Group which works primarily with Western communities and tribal nations desiring to preserve cultures, environments, and family agriculture Laurie Weinstein is Professor of Anthropology at Western Connecticut State University. She has written numerous books, anthologies, and articles about Native Americans, particularly in New England, and women and the military. She directs the archaeology program at Western Connecticut State University where she also co-directs Women's StudiesWeinstein, Laurie is the author of 'Native Peoples of the Southwest Negotiating Land, Water, and Ethnicities' with ISBN 9780897899048 and ISBN 0897899040.