ABSTRACT
A recent essay in the APA volume Culture Reexamined presents regional psychology as a specific and independent area of cross-cultural study. Indigenous psychology likewise has a separate presence in cross-cultural psychological research. Indigenous may sometimes be equated with static or unchanging, and some Indigenous cultures are so. Little has been said about specific psychological beliefs of Indigenous groups. In the United States, psychology as a field has recognized that all cultures have evolved particular sets of ideas and attitudes about human behavior and the mind such that all psychologies are, in a real sense, Indigenous. Organized psychology has recently made specific efforts to confront its long- standing silence on the mistreatment of Indigenous cultures. An exercise that might prove useful in revealing the many interwoven strands of regionality and indigenousness could be to sketch out how many apologies might be delivered in such a meeting of groups in any region of a previously colonized area.
