Amerind Foundation

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The Amerind Foundation is a private, membership supported, nonprofit ethnological, anthropological, archaeological museum and research facility dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories. Its facilities are located near the village of Dragoon, Arizona, about 65 miles east of Tucson, Arizona in Texas Canyon.

William Shirley Fulton (1880-1964), an archaeologist, established the Amerind Foundation in 1937.

The Amerind Foundation's museum contains one of the finest collections of archaeological and ethnological artifacts in the country as well as a sizable subject specific research library. Displayed in the art gallery are paintings by 20th century Anglo and Native American artists.

According to the Foundation's literature, "Amerind" a contraction of the words "American" and "Indian".

[edit] Amerind Foundation published works

Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric Desert Peoples of the American Southwest, edited by George J. Gumerman. 1991. ISBN 0-8263-1228-4
Culture and Contact: Charles C. Di Peso's Gran Chichimeca, edited by Anne I. Woosley and John C. Ravesloot. 1993. ISBN 0-8263-1460-0
Great Towns and Regional Polities: Cultural Evolution in the U.S. Southwest and Southeast, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. 1999. (out of print) ISBN 0-8263-2001-5
Salado, edited by Jeffrey S. Dean. 2000. ISBN 0-8263-2169-0
Anthropological Perspectives on Technology, edited by Michael B. Schiffer. 2001. ISBN 0-8263-2369-3
Embedded Symmetries: Natural and Cultural, edited by Dorothy K. Washburn. 2004. ISBN 0-8263-3152-1
Archaeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona, by William Shirley Fulton. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Vols. 1-3. 1934-1938. New York. (out of print)
An Archaeological Site Near Gleeson, Arizona, by William Shirley Fulton and Carr Tuthill. 1940. (out of print)
A Ceremonial Cave in the Winchester Mountains, Arizona, by William Shirley Fulton. 1941.
Painted Cave in Northeastern Arizona, by Emil W. Haury. 1945.
The Tres Alamos Site on the San Pedro River, Southeastern Arizona, by Carr Tuthill. 1947. (out of print)
The Babocomari Village Site on the Babocomari River, Southeastern Arizona, by Charles C. Di Peso. 1951. (out of print)
The Sobaipuri Indians of the Upper San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona, by Charles C. Di Peso. 1953. (out of print)
The Upper Pima of San Cayetano del Tumacacori, by Charles C. Di Peso. 1956. (out of print)
The Reeve Ruin of Southeastern Arizona, by Charles C. Di Peso. 1958. (out of print)
Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, by Charles C. Di Peso, John B. Rinaldo, and Gloria J. Fenner. Vols. 1-8. 1974. (out of print)
Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology, by Anne I. Woosley and Allan J. McIntyre. 1996. (out of print).