Clifford E. Trafzer is the Director of Native American Studies and the Costo Native American Research Center at the University of California, Riverside, where he is also Professor of History and Ethnic Studies. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books on the history, lives, and experiences of Native American peoples, including Earth Song, Sky Spirit and Blue Dawn, Red Earth. Trafzer is Vice-Chair of the California Native American Heritage Commission, an agency that protects sacred sites and American Indian burial grounds. He live in Yucaipa, California.
