Dr. Patrisia Gonzales is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, where she teaches several courses on Indigenous medicine. She is one of the few scholars in the country that has an expertise in traditional medicine ways of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples across North America. Her previous book Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing (University of Arizona Press 2012) has been adopted for courses across the country and she is internationally recognized for her expertise in Indigenous midwifery and Indigenous medicine. She's also one of the few scholars in the country to offer courses on American Indian Medicine and Mesoamerican/Indigenous medicine at both the introductory and advanced levels. Additionally, she descends from several generations of Indigenous healers and has worked with Indigenous medicine keepers and elders for most of her life, providing a lived context for her interaction with these materials. She descends from Kickapoo, Comanche and Macehual peoples who traversed across the territories of what is now the United States and Mexico.