Aresta Tsosie-Paddock

Interests

Teaching

American Indian history, tribal government, Federal Indian law, Urban Indian studies, Indian removal and relocation, American Indian language (Navajo), cultural appropriation, Indigenous research methodologies, Native women and masculinity studies, Navajo history and philosophy.

Research

Native women and masculinity, American Indian Urban studies (languages, relocation), Navajo history, methodologies, and American Indian communities and issues.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S., & Tippeconnnic-Fox, M. J. (2024). American Indian Women Combating Covid-19: The Household Disruptor. In COVID-19 in Indian Country(pp 241-259). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:0.1007/978-3-031-70184-9
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  This chapter investigates how American Indian women living in urban areas have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many American Indian women are heads of households and serve as primary caretakers to their children, and perhaps other family members and/or relatives. As heads of households, American Indian women not only provide financial support but provide emotional support, discipline, protection, and are central to home life. The focus of this study examines how American Indian women as heads of households dealt with the disruptions caused by COVID-19 and contended with the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic at home with their families and at work. Moreover, how did urban American Indian women navigate through the pandemic and how does COVID-19 continue to impact their lives?
• Tsosie-Paddock, A., Redd, E., & Autry, R. (2024). Language landscapes and Native resilience: Land-connectivity, language, and identity among urban Native Americans. In New Approaches to Language and Identity in contexts of Migration and Diaspora(pp 106-121). London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781003373667-8
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  Despite five centuries of genocidal practice and two hundred years of overt US assimilationist policies, many Native American peoples still speak their Native languages. Individual language keepers play a significant role in the persistence of Native languages and may even maintain language use after moving away from traditional lands and communities. This research aims to describe the motivations by which Native Americans living away from their language homelands maintain a connection to their heritage languages. Based on interviews and observations of family members in six families across three languages, we argue that these families exhibit linguistic resilience in the face of geographic displacement through creating new language landscapes in the home and local community and through staying connected to their homelands through return visits and social media. Even as urban Natives are displaced from their traditional homelands, they are creating new language landscapes in the home and new relational spaces online, illustrating linguistic and sociolinguistic resilience.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2021). Bidiishkaal: Putting Forth Effort. In American Indian Graduate Student Experiences(p. 15). University of Arizona.
• Kickham, E., & Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2021). Shifting Frames: Language Revitalization in Support of Tribal Sovereignty. In On Ground: The Southwest(p. 20). Charlotte, NV: Information Age Publication.

Journals/Publications

• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2018). Second Generation Navajo Relocatees: Coping with Land Loss, Cultural Dispossession, and Displacement.. Wicazo Sa Review, 33(1), 87-116.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2015). Urbanism and Navajo Relocation. The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience (ABC-CLIO Journal).
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2013). An Undetermined Legacy: Coal and Uranium Development on the Navajo Nation. The American Mosaic: American Indian Experience (ABC-CLIO Journal).

Presentations

• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2021, April). The Impacts of Covid-19 on Urban American Indian Women. Western Social Sciences Association Conference. Zoom: Western Social Sciences Association.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2021, June). Land-Connectivity, Linguistic Resilience, and Identity among Urban Native Americans. Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity Conference. Falmer, East Sussex, England: University of Sussex.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2023, February). Returning to Kéyah as Reparation: Unsettling Inequality and Dislocation. American Indian Studies Association. Arizona State University: American Indian Studies Association.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2022, April). Indigenous Justice Research and Beyond Panelist. Western Social Science Association Conference.. Denver, CO: Western Social Science Association.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2022, April). Shifting Pedagogies for Learning the Navajo Language: Applying a Mentor-Apprentice Paradigm through Technology. Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Mentor-Supported Research Design Panel. University of Arizona: Center for University Education Scholarship.
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2022, June). Promoting Social Justice through Language Revitalization Initiatives. Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). Seattle, WA by Zoom: Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).
• Tsosie-Paddock, A. S. (2022, October). A Broken Circle: Land Displacement and Cultural Dispossession of Second-Generation Diné Relocatees. Mass Violence and its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Americas and Australia,/Pacific Region. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.