Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
(Brush Education, 2018)
ART 102
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.
(Description Source: Brush Education)
Author
Gregory Younging, of the 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 guide Greg developed at Theytus. Greg also served as Assistant Director of Research to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and taught in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).
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Print ISBN: 9781550597165
eBook ISBN: 9781550597196
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