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Eyewitness Reporting by Navajo and Mainstream-Culture Children

Northern Arizona University, elise.lindstedt{at}nau.edu

This study examined culturally based differences in children's eyewitness reporting. The same live event was enacted with one mainstream-culture and one Navajo (Diné) third-grade class. Ten days later an interviewer used a forensic protocol to question each child. The children's answers were analyzed for amount and accuracy of reported information. Mainstream-culture children reported more information overall than the Navajo, but the groups did not differ in accuracy. Active participation affected the amount of information reported by mainstream-culture children, whereas Navajo children were equally informative as either participants or observers. Results indicate a cultural orientation to the recall of personally experienced events.

Communication Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3, 166-175 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/152574010002100305


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