Muriel Painter's account of Yaqui beliefs and ceremonies is based on her firsthand observations over the course of four decades. By the time Painter died in 1974, she was as familiar with Yaqui culture as on outsider could be and left behind the manuscript from which this volume arose. It was reviewed before the original publication in 1986 by a Yaqui committee and edited for publication by Edward Spicer.

"With Good Heart gives great insight into the beliefs and deepest sentiments of the Yaqui people. . . . Answers a definite need in the field of Yaqui studies and reveals from the inside the true meaning behind the ceremonial life of this hitherto little understood people."—New Mexico Historical Review"A tribute to the cultural perseverence of a people as well as to the devotion of a woman who sought to preserve it. Her book constitutes an exceptional, perhaps a unique, ethnographic account of stability and change."—The Chesopiean"This study of Yaqui Indian religious beliefs and behavior is a welcome respite from the more sensational "separate reality" genre.Forty years of study are brought together in Painter's excellent description."—Choice