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 LeupChapter 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.