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Aresta Tsosie-Paddock

Assistant Professor, Linguistics | Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP | Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Assistant Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP

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Aresta Tsosie-Paddock is an Assistant Professor Career-Track at the University of Arizona. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation from Sand Springs, Arizona. Aresta's home chapter is Leupp Chapter located in Leupp, Arizona. Her Navajo clans are Naakaidine’é (Mexican People) born for Bįįh bitoo’nii (Deer Springs People), grandmothers are Tł’ízi łání (Manygoats People), and grandfathers are Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House People). She is currently with the Department of American Indian Studies and Department of Linguistics. Aresta has a PhD in American Indian Studies from UA. Her emphasis is on Navajo displacement and dispossession, language revitalization (Navajo language), law and policy, Native women, tribal government and urban American Indian studies. She is further developing a theoretical framework she developed through her research, Land-Centered Connectivity Paradigm, where land is central to Indigenous Peoples and is an intersecting foundation for culture and tradition. Her upcoming publication is titled “Second Generation Navajo Relocatees: Coping with Land Loss, Cultural Dispossession, and Displacement” which focuses on her study that examines second generation Navajo relocatees (2GNR) residing in urban centers due to compulsory relocation. 

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