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Rebecca Tsosie is a senior sustainability scientist and Regents' Professor of Law at Arizona State University. In this essay, she examines sustainability policies and practices as they relate to Indigenous peoples, and illustrates why placing Indigenous peoples at the center of sustainability studies is a valuable approach.