Participant Info
- First Name
- Rose
- Last Name
- Soza War Soldier
- Country
- United States
- State
- AZ Arizona
- Rose.SozaWarSoldier@nau.edu
- Affiliation
- Northern Arizona University
- Website URL
- https://nau.edu/sbs/ethnic-studies/faculty-staff/soldier-rose/
- Keywords
- 20th Century American history, American Indian activism and resistance, Oral history, Race relations, Cultural and Social history, Western history, California Indian history and politics, California Indian activism, Indigenous peoples of Latin America
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- Rose.SozaWarSoldier@nau.edu
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Rose Soza War Soldier, Mountain Maidu/Cahuilla/Luiseño, is an enrolled member of Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a double minor in Political Science and Social/Ethnic Relations at University of California, Davis and earned a doctoral degree in History with an emphasis in American Indian History from Arizona State University. Her dissertation “To Take Positive and Effective Action”: Rupert Costo and the California Based American Indian Historical Society examines the twentieth century San Francisco-based activist organization which sought social justice. Currently, she is a lecturer in Ethnic Studies at Northern Arizona University. Her research and teaching focuses on twentieth century American Indian activism, social and cultural history, politics, education, and justice-centered movements. She has published in “News From Native California” and has a forthcoming chapter entitled, “tilted history is too often taught”: Activism, Advocacy, and Restoring Humanity.
- Recent Publications
“Making Space: A Retrospective on the California Indian Conference,” News From Native California 29 (Fall 2015): 30-35.
“Speaking Out: Rupert Costo and the American Indian Historical Society,” News From Native California 28 (Fall 2014): 27-32.
Contributor, “Decolonization,” American Indian Quarterly 29(Winter/Spring 2005): 288-292.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Indigenous lands of California
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Politics, Race, Women
