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Summary
- Abstract:
- This collection documents the operations of the Society of Indian Psychologists. The Society of Indian Psychologists highlights and celebrates the heritage and identity of the Indigenous people of the Americas. Members create a community that supports psychologists and graduate students studying psychology.
- Extent:
- 433 Digital Files
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Society of Indian Psychologists Records, 1976-2020. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Society of Indian Psychologists Records).
Background
- Scope and Content:
This collection includes hundreds of digital files created by Society of Indian Psychologists' leadership in recent years. Materials include documents pertaining to the Annual Convention of American Indian Psychologists, meeting agendas and minutes, articles the organization has written regarding current events, newsletters, administrative records, subject files, and membership correspondence.
President Jacqueline Gray's records primarily consist of convention participation lists and other documents, general meeting agendas and minutes, a majority of the newsletters, and nominations of members for academic and community-based awards. In addition to the type of records in the President Jacqueline Gray series, President Art Blume's records pertain to the protests at Standing Rock, the request for the American Psychologist Association (APA) to apologize for its previous mistreatment of the Indigenous population, and efforts to educate the public on the treatment of the Indigenous people.
President Gayle Morse's files contain convention participation lists and other documents, general meeting agendas and minutes, nominations of members for academic and community-based awards, materials regarding the Leader Development Institute, and actions and committees dedicated to bettering the APA ethics code.
This collection does not contain records from all presidents from this time range.
- Biographical / Historical:
The Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) is an organization for Native American Indigenous people who advocate for the mental well-being of Native peoples by increasing the knowledge and awareness of issues having an impact upon Native mental health.
Per SIP's By-laws' the term "Indian" refers to the Indigenous people of the Americas. Individual members of SIP who are Indigenous usually prefer to be identified by their traditional tribal names. Other group names sometimes referred to are Indigenous, Alaska Native, American Indian, Native American, Native Hawaiian, First Nations, Aboriginal people, and Native people.
In April of 2016, communities local to Standing Rock organzied a campaign to stop the construction Dakota Acccess Pipeline due to it violating ancient burial grounds and sites of historic importance to the Indigenous people of the Americas. The Society of Indian Psychologists were vocal in their protest of the pipeline and many documents in President Art Blume's series pertain to this issue.
- Acquisition information:
- Past President Gayle Morse, PhD (Mohawk) donated all materials to the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives in March 2021 and April 2024.
- Processing information:
Processed in 2024 by Meghan Slaff. The 2024 acquisition has not yet been arranged or described. Recent phone numbers and home addresses have been struck from documents in an effort to protect the privacy of the Society of Indian Psychologists' members, their donors, and the legislators peritenent to their advocacy efforts.
- Arrangement:
The records are divided into series reflecting SIP presidential terms as the presidents were the sources of the records in each series. Each series has chronological subseries.
Records that were transferred in chronological order, but without a president, were moved during processing to the series of the appropriate presidential term.
- Physical location:
- The materials are located onsite in the department.
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Society of Indian Psychologists Records, 1976-2020. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Society of Indian Psychologists Records).