Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples

by Gregory Younging

Published by: Brush Education

Imprint: Brush Education

Sales Date: 2018-02-15

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Published: February 2018

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Imprint: Brush Education

Page Count: 168 Pages

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Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they’re working.

This guide features:

Twenty-two succinct style principles.
Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge.
Terminology to use and to avoid.
Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives.
Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.

Gregory Younging, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, was the publisher of Theytus Books, the first Indigenous-owned publishing house in Canada. Elements of Indigenous Style began as the house style Gregory developed at Theytus. Gregory also taught in the Indigenous Studies Program of the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and he served as assistant director of research to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Introduction
1. Why an Indigenous style guide?
2. A history of the portrayal of Indigenous Peoples in literature
3. Contemporary Indigenous cultural realities
4. The cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples
5. Culturally appropriate publishing practices for Indigenous authors and content
6. Terminology
7. Specific editorial issues
Appendix A: Summary of Indigenous style principles
Appendix B: Draft principles of the Indigenous Editors Circle
Appendix C: Compilations of names of Indigenous Peoples
Appendix D: Gnaritas Nullius (No One’s Knowledge): The Essence of Traditional Knowledge and Its Colonization through Western Legal Regimes, by Gregory Younging

As a good style guide should, Elements of Indigenous Style provides answers for common and uncommon questions editors, publishers, and writer might have. The Editing Company Blog

These [Indigenous style] principles are clear and useful for writers, editors and publishers,
as well as enlightening for readers. The Editors' Weekly, official blog of Canada's national editorial association

This guide respects and affirms the Indigenous Right to cultural expression, property, and distribution, and it aims to strengthen future publishing practices of writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. The Capilano Review

[A] strong foundation for those beginning to learn about Indigenous writing as well as a valuable go-to resource for those working regularly in Indigenous topics. Canadian Literature

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