Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Description
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 with words or in other media needs to read this important reference and to keep it nearby while they’re working.
This guide features 22 succinct style principles, advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, terminology to use and to avoid, advice on specific editing issues, and case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.
Reviews
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
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
These [Indigenous style] principles are clear and useful for writers, editors and publishers,
- The Editors' Weekly, official blog of Canada's national editorial association
as well as enlightening for readers.