Rebecca Tsosie

Rebecca Tsosie, Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program, has contributed a chapter, “Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship,” to be published in the book, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politic, Activism, Culture.

Tsosie uses qualitative research detailing how native leadership qualities are created in various tribes in addition to discussing the impact of colonialism on Native women in the United States and Canada.

Tsosie, a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, teaches in the areas of Indian law, property, bioethics, and critical race theory, as well as seminars in international indigenous rights and in the College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws program. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and an Affiliate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at ASU. Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy and cultural rights, and is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism.