Background
His father, Thomas Dozier, was an Anglo-American schoolteacher who was adopted into a Tewa clan.
His father, Thomas Dozier, was an Anglo-American schoolteacher who was adopted into a Tewa clan.
University of California, Los Los Angeles
Dozier was of Tewa ethnicity, from Santa Clara Pueblo. He spoke only Tewa to the age of 12. During World World War II, Dozier served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific theater.
At that time he anglicized his name to Edward P. Dozier.
He earned his Bachelor from the University of New Mexico in anthropology in 1947. He later earned a Master of Arts from the same institution.
His Doctor of Philosophy was from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952. Beginning in 1953 he taught classes at several universities, ultimately at the Tucson campus of the University of Arizona.
His mother, Maria Lucaria Gutierrez, was a member of the Tewa Badger clan (her Tewa name was P"oo kwi tsaawaa).