Books, Articles, and Guides

Acknowledging Psychology's History, Call for Disciplinary and Institutional Change 

In February 2023, APA Council of Representatives voted to extend a formal apology to First Peoples in the United States. In June 2023, APA leadership as well as the workgroup which drafted the Report on an Offer of Apology attended the annual convention of the Society of Indian Psychologists to deliver the apology in person.

• Report on an Offer of Apology, on behalf of the American Psychological Association, to First Peoples in the United States (apa.org)

This offer of apology as a document and delivered in person by the APA follows apologies offered by the Australian Psychological Association, as well as the response of the Canadian Psychological Association to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Report. 

• Psychology’s Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Report

Other important documents that may be of interest with record to acknowledgement of psychology's history and calls for disciplinary change include:

• Protecting and Defending our People: Nakni tushka anowa (The Warrior's Path) Final Report. APA Division 45 Warrior’s Path Presidential Task Force (2020) 

• Historical Chronology of Racism in Psychology 
• Updates on APAs work towards EDI and racial equity

• The Privilege of Not Walking Away: Indigenous Women’s Perspectives of Reconciliation in the Academy (Ward, Gaudet, McGuire-Adams, 2021)
• Indigenous peoples and professional training in psychology in Canada (Ansloos, Stewart, Fellner, Goodwill, Graham, McCormick, Harder,  & Mushquash, 2019)

Indigenous Research and Indigenous Perspectives on Research and Ethics

• First Nations Principles of OCAP
• BC Campus Indigenization Project: Learning guides for:  a) Foundations,  b) Researchers
• Addressing the need for indigenous and decolonized quantitative research methods in Canada (Hayward et al., 2021)
• Considering Indigenous Research Methodologies: Bicultural Accountability and the Protection of Community Held Knowledge (Windchief & Cummins, 2021)
• Decolonization as Methodological Innovation in Counseling Psychology: Method, Power, and Process in Reclaiming American Indian Therapeutic Traditions (Gone, 2021)
• Reflexive reflection co-created with Kehte-ayak (Old Ones) as an Indigenous qualitative methodological data contemplation tool (LaVallie, Sasakamoose, 2021)
• Indigenous strengths based approaches to healthcare and health professions education - Recognising the value of Eders' teachings (Kennedy, Sehgal, Szabo, McGowan, Lindstron, Roach, Crowshoe, & Barnabe, 2022; with Elder Grandmother Doreen Spence, Elder Ray Bear Chief, Elder Noreen McAteer)
• Centering Indigenous Knowledges and Worldviews: Applying the Indigenist Ecological Systems Model to Youth Mental Health and Wellness Research and Programs (O’Keefe, V.M.; Fish, J.; Maudrie, T.L.; Hunter, A.M.; Tai Rakena, H.G.; Ullrich, J.S.; Clifford, C.; Crawford, A.; Brockie, T.; Walls, M.; Haroz, E.E.; Cwik, M.; Whitesell, N.R.; Barlow, A, 2022)
• Gathering our medicine: strengthening and healing kinship and community (Findlay, 2023)
• Beyond trauma: Decolonizing understandings of loss and healing in the Indian Residential School system of Canada (Burrage, Momper, Gone, 2021)
• Towards Reconciliation: Philanthropy, animal-human relationships, and community engaged learning  (Kincaid, Livingstone, Li, et al., 2022)
• Towards a Haudenosaunee Developmental Science: Perspectives From the Two Row Wampum. Fish, J. (2021, October 14).
• American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Pueblo (Ross, 2018) 
• Journal of Indigenous Research
• Margaret Kovach: Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition  
• Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Decolonizing Methodologies, Second Edition
• Gregory Younging: Elements of Indigenous Style: A guide for Writing By And About Indigenous Peoples
• Publications of the Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP)
• The Ethics of Research Involving Indigenous Peoples (Ermine et al, 2004)
• Ethics of Health Research Involving First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (TriCouncil)
• Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Visions, Dreams, and Hallucinations (Morse & Lomay, 2020)
• Indigenous Approaches to Program Evaluation (NCCIH, 2013)
• Promoting New Psychological Understandings by Use of an Indigenous American Psychological Paradigm (Blume, 2022)
• Constructing Identity Spaces for First Nations People: Towards an Indigenous Psychology of Self-determination and Cultural Healing (Liu, Aho, Rata, 2014)
• Patricia D. McGuire. (2019). Indigenous Knowledges and Women Responsibilities as Invigorating Processes.” Book Chapter. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Decolonizing the Academy. S. Cote-Meek and T. Moeke-Pickering. (Eds). Canadian Scholar’s Press. 
• Patricia D. McGuire. (2010). “Exploring Resilience and Indigenous Ways of Knowing.”  Pimatisiwin – A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health. Volume 8, No 2 – Fall 2010. Open source, www.pimatisiwin.com
• SFU 2021 Library Indigenous Research in Action Speaker Series

• Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
• SFU Library guide on Indigenous Terminology
• UBC Terminology guide
• First Nations Info Pronounciation guide 
• APA Bias Free Language Gudelines & APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
• UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• BC Action Plan to implement UNDRIP (March 30, 2022) : https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022IRR0018-000457
• TEACH: Centering Culture Cultural Competency Training — Tohi Lab

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