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Author Biography

Shelby Johnson is an assistant professor of early American literature at Oklahoma State University, which is located on the ancestral land of the Osage and Kiowa peoples. Today, thirty-nine tribal nations dwell in the state of Oklahoma as a result of settler colonial policies designed to assimilate Native people, histories she foregrounds in her teaching and research. Her book, The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, argues that early Black and Indigenous writers improvised worldmaking practices in the ruins of colonial violence. She is working on a new project tentatively titled Intimate Archives of Transformable Life, which explores how Indigenous practices of gender and sexuality offered significant sites of landed relation and dissent to colonial displacement.

Katarina O’Briain, assistant professor of English at York University, lives in Tkaronto/Toronto on the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples. This territory is part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement of collective responsibility in protecting and caring for the land of the Great Lakes region. She is currently finishing her book manuscript, “Georgic Dispossessions: Poetry Across the Long Eighteenth Century,” which tracks the development and refusal of settler–imperial georgics from the eighteenth century to today.

Willow White is an assistant professor of English Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta with ancestral ties to the historic Red River settlement through the Inkster, Sutherland, Anderson, and Cook families. White is the author of Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London (Delaware 2024) and co-editor of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (Broadview 2023). Her work has appeared in Women’s Writing and Eighteenth Century Studies.

Abstract

These collaboratively written guidelines offer suggestions and resources for writing about Indigenous Peoples, knowledge, and histories ethically and respectfully. With an awareness that this work is ongoing, that terms and language are subject to change, and that no set of guidelines or essays can fully account for diverse Native histories, these guidelines and resources offer suggestions for best practices for eighteenth-century scholars who are considering engaging in this work. The authors and contributors of this document understand that language is always evolving and that these guidelines may not be relevant indefinitely and in all circumstances. At some point, we imagine that new guidelines will need to be created. Our goal with the current guidelines is to support colleagues in eighteenth-century studies in writing about Indigenous Peoples ethically and respectfully.

Keywords

Language, Indigenous studies, Black and Indigenous Histories, colonial archives, ethics of citation

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