Indigenous Referencing Prototype – Non-Indigenous authored works

Historically much of First Nations knowledges, languages, history, etc has been recorded by Non-Indigenous authors without proper attribution to communities that this information comes from, as such I attempted (poorly) to create some referencing guidelines in APA to potentially correct this.  Please comment adjustments you would make and things you would add.

Note: I selected these examples off the top of my head and I quite like their work and I by no means think they are not properly attributed First Nations knowledges.

Non-Indigenous author who references or applies First Nations knowledges, if an individual First Nations knowledge holder is named. Book example, can be adjusted for different formats

In text citation – (Original author last name, Nation/Clan/Community, as cited in Author last name of work where quote found, Year)

Example – (Sentance, Wiradjuri, as cited by Sullivan & Middleton, 2020)

Reference – follows current APA referencing guidelines without adjustment unless you are using the reference for your work (assignment, report, article, etc) which relates to First Nations people, culture and/or history. If that’s the case, then reference is Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. Non-Indigenous. (YEAR). Title of the book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company

Example – Sullivan N., & Middleton, C. Non-Indigenous. (2020). Queering the museum. Abingdon, Oxon ;: Routledge.

Non-Indigenous author who references or applies  knowledge or information that originates from a First Nations community and no individual First Nations knowledge holder/s are named. Book example, can be adjusted for different formats

In text citation – (Nation/Clan/Community knowledge, as cited in Author last name, non-Indigenous,Year)

Example – (Wiradjuri knowledge, as cited by Griffiths, Non-Indigenous, 2018)

Reference – Nation/Clan/Community knowledge (inclusive page numbers or page numbers of cited information). In Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. Non-Indigenous. (YEAR). Title of the book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company

Example – Wiradjuri knowledge (pp. 34-35). In Griffiths, B. Non-Indigenous. (2018). Deep time dreaming : uncovering ancient Australia. Carlton, VIC: Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty, Ltd.

Non-Indigenous author who references or uses First Nations knowledges or information received from a First Nations community or community member but does name the community or community member or does not provide enough to determine which community the knowledge originates from. Book example, can be adjusted for different format.

In text citation – (Indigenous knowledge, Australia, as cited by Author last name, non-Indigenous,Year)

Example – (Indigenous knowledge, Australia, as cited by Griffiths, Non-Indigenous, 2018)

Reference – Indigenous knowledge, Country of origin [Indigenous community not recorded], (inclusive page numbers or page numbers of cited information). In Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. Non-Indigenous. (YEAR). Title of the book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company

Example – Indigenous knowledge, Australia [Indigenous community not recorded], (pp. 34-35). In Griffiths, B. Non-Indigenous. (2018). Deep time dreaming : uncovering ancient Australia. Carlton, VIC: Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty, Ltd.

Non-Indigenous author who has conducted research on First Nations land which heavily interacts with the land (eg ecological research, botanical, etc). Journal example, can be adjusted for different formats

In text citation – (Nation/Clan/Community Country, Author Surname, Year)

Example – (Wiradjuri Country, Johnson, Laake, & Ver Hoef, 2010)

Reference – Nation/Clan/Community Country. Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Article title: Subtitle. Journal Title, Volume(issue*), page range.

Example – Wiradjuri Country. Johnson, D., Laake, J., & Ver Hoef, J. (2010). A Model-Based Approach for Making Ecological Inference from Distance Sampling Data. Biometrics, 66(1), 310–318.

By Nathan mudyi Sentance