About the Author

Author Clifford Trafzer, a professor of American Indian history at UCR, has written books including Native Universe, Renegade Tribe, Death Stalks the Yakama, and Chemehuevi People. Jeffrey Smith, a history instructor at California State University, San Bernardino and San Bernardino Valley College, has written Made Beings, a history of the Cary Collection of Native American artifacts owned by the Cabazon and Twenty-nine Palms tribes.