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In April 2021, psychologist Adam Hoffman co-led a virtual roundtable discussion for child development scholars on studying Native American communities. Hoffman, an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Human Ecology, had written his dissertation about Cherokee youth, and he and other presenters shared the importance of engaging Indigenous groups in the research process.

Afterward, Hoffman wondered how many developmental science papers had actually been written about Indigenous children and youth. After poring through archives of