ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIES

During the production of In Search of Aztlán many individual were interviewed, far too many to include in the video. Because we value highly the contributions made by these individuals, we are including transcripts of these interviews which were not in the video for further scholarly research. Following are biographies of persons whose comments were not included in the final version of In Search of Aztlan but whose comments are available at this website.

Dr. Jack D. Forbes

Jack D. Forbes is professor emeritus and former chair of Native American Studies at the
University of California at Davis, where he has served since 1969. He is of Powhatan-Renápe ,
Delaware-Lenápe and other background. He received his Ph.D from the University of Southern California in 1959, having graduated from Glendale College in l953 and from Eagle Rock High School in 1951. In 1960-61 he developed proposals for Native American Studies programs and for an indigenous university. In l971 the D-Q University came into being as a result of that proposal. Forbes is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles including Red Blood: A Novel (1997, Theytus), Columbus and Other Cannibals (l992, Autonomedia), Only Approved Indians (1995, Oklahoma), Apache, Navaho And Spaniard (1960, 1994, Oklahoma ), and Africans And Native Americans(1993, Illinois ). Other books in print include Native Americans of California And Nevada, Native Americans Higher Education: The Struggle For the Creation Of D-Q University, and Proposition 209: Racist Trick or Radical Equalizaer. He is also a poet and a fiction writer. His poetry collections include What Is Time? Naming Our Land , El-Lay Riots and What Is Space? Jack Forbes has lectured around the world and is the recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1997. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow. Recently, he was awarded the 1999 Writer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas. He is a co-founder of the Native American Movement in the early 1960's and co-founder of United Native Americans in 1968.

Frank Gutierrez

Frank Gutierrez is professor of Chicano Studies at East Los Angeles Community College in Monterrey Park, California.

Dr. Luis Leal

Luis Leal is Professor Emeritus (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), now Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His extensive published works have been compiled in “Luis Leal: A Bibliography with Interpretative and Critical Essays” (1988).
Among his most recent books are “Aztlan y Mexico and No Longer Voiceless” (1995). IN 1991 he received the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican Government and in 1997, the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. In 1988, he was made a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola, and also a corresponding member of the Academia Espanola.

Dr. Cecilio Orozco

Dr. Cecilio Orozco is Professor of Chicano Studies at California State University at Fresno. He received a B.S. in Spanish and an M.A. degree in Education from Northern Arizona University.Dr. Orozco is an expert in ancient calendars of the Maya and Aztecs, the Tonalamatl and the Tzolkin respectively. His published works include Las Letras del Lic. Alfonso Rivas Salmón and a book explaining the details of the Sun Stone of the Mexican and the Aztec Calendar. His scholarly has focused on Utah as the origin point of the Nahuatl people whom he considers to be ancestors of the Anazai and the Aztecs. He has received the National Association for Bilingual Education’s “Pioneer in Bilingual Education Medal” as well as many other recognitions.

Marta Ramirez

Marta Ramirez is a specialist in Nahuatl history and art. Since 1990 she has taught art and history at Nahuatl University in Cuenavaca, Mexico