Print

Acknowledgments There are many acknowledgments to be made, because, as one might suspect, conceptualizing an Indigenous American psychology from our people’s traditions takes a community effort. Some are mentioned here, and many are not due to space, but all have been important in the process. First, thank you to my family, especially to Karen, Amanda, Rachel, and Jacob, for teaching me lessons about healthy relationships every day to my parents, grandparents, and other ancestors for providing the blueprint for who I am becoming to my in-law parents, Fred and Jean, who have showed me great kindness to my brother, Steve, who has demonstrated great courage in facing intersectional colonial bias and to my sister, Julie, who is with the ancestors, and her children, who remind me daily of the unspeakable costs of colonialism and the hopeful realities of resilience. Thank you to the Rockefeller Foundation for their award of an aca- demic writing fellowship that carved out the time to think without inter- ruption (imagine that!) and draft the book proposal for Praeger and to begin to draft what would ultimately become this book. I would also like to acknowledge the exceptionally gifted and interdisciplinary fellows who accompanied my stay at the Bellagio Center for their impact on how I approached this book, in particular, Bob Kaplan, Dikgang Moseneke, and Monica Skewes, as well as our gracious host Pilar Palaciá and her extraordinary staff. Thank you to Karen Schmaling for reviewing the first draft of the man- uscript and to Gayle Skawen:nio Morse for reviewing the second draft. Your edits and comments were especially helpful to confirm that the manuscript was on the right path. Also a big thank you to my friends and