Jane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of "Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories" (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Moises, in 1934. They remained close friends until Moises's death in 1969.