Rebecca Tsosie is a highly regarded scholar of Indian law. She is of Yaqui decent who are native people of the Sonoran Desert. Tsosie visits Elizabethtown College on Monday, Nov. 24 to talk to classes about citizenship and speak on “The Politics of Inclusion: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Citizenship” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in Gibble Auditorium. ­­

Tsosie is a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Her Monday night lecture covers United States citizenship and its relation to Native Americans. It also examines indigenous self-determination, civil rights and the politics of citizenship. Also, during her visit, she will speak to classes and have lunch with pre-law students

The lecture, open to campus and community members, covers a topic of major issue that affects us every day, according to Dr. Robert Wheelersburg, professor of anthropology .

“Right now illegal vs. legal immigration and citizenship are possibly the most pressing domestic issues un-related to terrorism and war,” he said. “Most … don’t know much about American Indians or immigration, so they will really be able to benefit from this lecture.”

Tsosie joined the Arizona State University faculty in 1993. She teaches Indian law, critical race theory and bioethics. She was the executive director of Arizona State’s Indian Legal Program from 1996-2011. Tsosie speaks annually at national conferences on tribal sovereignty and self-determination. In 2012, she was named an ASU Regents’, which is the university’s highest faculty honor.

This lecture is free. For more information contact Robert Wheelersburg at wheelersburg@etown.edu.