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The Aztec empire was established in the Valley of Mexico in the 14th century, eventually dominating a vast region from a base on their island capital city, Tenochtitlán. Hernán Cortés sacked Tenochtitlán for Spain in 1521. Missionary friars arrived soon after to begin the Christianization of the Mesoamerican population. To facilitate their conversion, Franciscan scholars trained the descendants of the Aztec nobility in alphabetic writing. Indi...

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A Zapotec Natural History is an extraordinary book that describe the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live. San Juan Gbлл is a Zapotec Indian community located in the state of Oaxaca, a region of great biological diversity. Eugene S. Hunn is a well-known anthropologist and ethnobiologist who has spent many years working in San Juan Gbлл, studying its residents and their knowledg...

Eugene S. Hunn is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Washington, E. Thomas Morning Owl is Umatilla master speaker for the CTUIR Language Program, Phillip E. Cash Cash is a PhD candidate in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Arizona, Jennifer Karson Engum is anthropologist / ethnographer for the CTUIR Cultural Resources Protection Program.

This book is about mid-Columbia Indians and their land. The author overturns many of the myths the dominant culture holds about Native Americans and even some misconceptions perpetrated by earlier scholarship in the field.