Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 13. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-55059-945-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 (Metis) and contributing editors Jordan Abel (Nisga'a), Lorena Fontaine
(Cree-Anishinaabe), and Deanna Reder (Cree-Metis) 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.
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 (Metis) and contributing editors Jordan Abel (Nisga'a), Lorena Fontaine
(Cree-Anishinaabe), and Deanna Reder (Cree-Metis) 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.
Reviews / Votes
Elements of Indigenous Style is a beautiful beginning, a gathering place and a cultivator of both discussion and growth. Younging's work clears the ground, drafts the blueprints and starts the framing out on the house that we need for our stories. At the same time, Younging manages to write both solid and grounded guidelines while leaving malleability in the architecture so that the ideas can grow and evolve. And we are all invited to share, discuss, add to, and cultivate this important work. - Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves and winner of the Governor General's Literary AwardAs 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
Style is fraught with politics, especially when writing about Indigenous Peoples. Now, writers, academics, journalists, publishers, and students can breathe a sigh of relief. Reach for this essential Indigenous style guide, not only when searching for the right word, but when seeking guidance on the importance of relationships and trust. - Duncan McCue, CBC Radio Host and author of The Shoe Boy
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 187 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55059-945-9 (9781550599459)
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Persons
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 M tis and European heritage based at the University of Manitoba. He has edited numerous books and anthologies of Indigenous Literature, and he is the 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.