La Farge, Oliver (Hazard Perry) (1901-1963)

US anthropologist and author. He graduated from Harvard University in 1924, and with a background of three field trips into Navajo country, he became an assistant in ethnology at Tulane University in 1925. He coauthored Tribes and Temples, an ethnology of the Guatemalan Indians, in 1927. He headed the Association of American Indian Affairs, and in the 1950s became a prominent champion of American Indian political and social causes. His novel Laughing Boy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. La Farge was born in New York City.