Dr. Trudy Griffin-Pierce

Trudy Griffin-Pierce (1949-2009) was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Native Peoples of the Southwest ; Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting ; and Native Americans: Enduring Cultures and Traditions , and contributed a chapter to National Geographic's Peoples of the World . Her research focused on the Apachean peoples, especially the Navajo, which led her into the field of anthropology.

Trudy Griffin-Pierce (1949-2009) was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Native Peoples of the Southwest ; Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting ; and Native Americans: Enduring Cultures and Traditions , and contributed a chapter to National Geographic's Peoples of the World . Her research focused on the Apachean peoples, especially the Navajo, which led her into the field of anthropology. See less