My favourite resource for all types of academic writing by and about Indigenous Peoples is Greg Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style (2018). In general, he notes, a respect for Indigenous ways of being “does not come from following rules” (p. 30). He advises that consent and collaboration are the key to respecting Indigenous cultural property, including Traditional Knowledge and Oral Traditions. Indigenous Peoples own their knowledge and culture, and “everyone else must seek permission to use them” – even in cases where non-Indigenous laws might imply that something is “public domain” (p. 38).
