Weaving American Indian and Alaska Native topics into the psychology curriculum.

Abstract

Historical and Cultural Considerations in the Course OrganizationPsychology tends to decontextualize the individual (Cole, 1996). However, in discussions of Indian and Native experiences, it is important to present topics in Copyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution. Research Design and MethodologyConducting field-based research with Indians and Natives presents special challenges to the scientific method and all that conventional laboratory science represents (Trimble, Scharron-del Rio, & Casillas, 2013). The setting of the 1 A sample lecture for discussing intergroup conflict in the classroom is available from this book's companion webpage (http://pubs.apa.org/books/supp/mena).