Dozier, Edward P.

Edward P. Dozier was born in 1916 at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico. His father, Thomas Sublette Dozier, was an Anglo lawyer who came to New Mexico to teach; and his mother, Leocardia Gutierrez Dozier, was a Tewa Pueblo Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo. He began attending the University of New Mexico in 1935. He enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1941 and was discharged in 1945. He returned to UNM and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology in 1947.

In 1943 he married Claire Elizabeth Butler and had one daughter. They divorced in 1948. He remained at the University of New Mexico and received his Master of Arts in anthropology in 1949. He then enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles and received his Ph.D. in 1952. He became the second Native American to receive a doctorate in anthropology. His main research interests were the Pueblo Indians and he spent much time researching on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. His dissertation, “The Changing Social Organization of the Hopi-Tewa”, was published as The Hopi-Tewa of Arizona (1954). He married Marianne Fink in 1950 and they had two children.

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