| 1999-2001 | Ethnobotanical research with Whiteriver Apache healer. |
| 1997 | Archival research: newspapers in Alamogordo and Ruidoso, NM and material cultural research in Taylor Museum (Colorodo Springs, CO) - Spring only. |
| 1996-
Present |
Work with a Whiteriver Apache woman on her life story. |
| 1995-
Present |
Work with a Whiteriver (Ft. Apache) Singer of Ceremonies and healer. |
| 1990-
Present |
Individual work with Mescalero Apache Singers of Ceremonies on ritual, religion, medicine, and healing. |
| 1990 | Belgian Festivals (January - June only). |
| 1984 & 86 | Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation; research focus on ethnoastronomy with Mescalero Apache. |
| 1981 & 83 | Santa Fe, NM. "The Business of Tradition" - effect of the marketplace on traditional Northern New Mexican expressive culture; summers. |
| 1976-
Present |
General ethnography and ethnoastronomy with Mescalero Apache. |
| 1974-75 | Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation, Mescalero, NM. Twelve-month ethnographic investigation with Tribal consent and support; focus on children's free play, ritual, and religion. Also participant-observation of daily life as well as some linguistic fieldwork. |
| 1974 | Synchronic ethnographies of juvenile institutions in Texas; summer. |
| Since the mid-1960s: minor, aperiodic, folkloristic and anthropological work with women, blacks, children, Mescalero Apaches (all in New Mexico), and very limited work with the Warm Springs Confederated Tribe (Oregon). 1970s onward: minor work at various sites in New Mexico including the pueblos of Laguna (Mesita, Paraje, Old Laguna), San Juan, Santo Domingo, Tesque, and Zuni and also in the Hispanic villages of Chimayo and Cordova, NM - in each instance I have focused on dance, drama, or other aspects of expressive culture and cultural performances. Beginning in the 1990s, I have worked in a limited way with Whiteriver Apaches (Western Apaches) in Northeastern Arizona. This work is often serendipitous and is not the primary thrust of my fieldwork; rather, it provides a comparative dimesion to my special focus on Apachean speakers, especially the Mescalero with whom I have worked since 1964. |