Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and About Indigenous Peoples - Couverture souple

Younging, Gregory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550599453 ISBN 13 : 9781550599459

Editeur : Brush Education Inc, 2025

Synopsis

The groundbreaking Indigenous style guide every writer needs The first published guide to common questions and issues of Indigenous style and process for those who work in words and other media is back in an updated new edition. This trusted resource offers crucial guidance to anyone who works in words or other media on how to work accurately, collaboratively, and ethically on projects involving Indigenous Peoples. Editor Warren Cariou (Métis) and contributing editors Jordan Abel (Nisga'a), Lorena Fontaine (Cree-Anishinaabe), and Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) continue the conversation started by the late Gregory Younging in his foundational first edition. This second conversation reflects changes in the publishing industry, Indigenous-led best practices, and society at large, including new chapters on author-editor relationships, identity and community affiliation, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer identities, sensitivity reading, emerging issues in the digital world, and more. 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, citation, accurately representing Indigenous languages, and quoting from historical sources and archives. Examples of projects that illustrate best practices.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Warren Cariou is a writer, scholar, and artist of Red River Métis and European heritage based at the University of Manitoba. He has edited numerous books and anthologies of Indigenous Literature, and he is General Editor of the First Voices, First Text series at the University of Manitoba Press. He has published works of fiction, criticism, and memoir about Indigenous cultures and environmental issues, and his photography examines oil extraction activities in Treaty 8 territory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brush Education Inc
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550599453
• ISBN 13: 9781550599459
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Cariou Warren
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible