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How to Cite Our Work

Our writing reflects Indigenous intellectual property, including cultural teachings, community knowledge, relational ethics, and place-based ways of knowing from Menominee and Indigenous people. These materials are shared with intention and so we ask readers to honor that by citing our work respectfully and accurately.

Citing Indigenous work is a recognition that this knowledge belongs to a living people, language, and culture. Proper citation helps prevent appropriation, misinterpretation, and the unacknowledged borrowing of Indigenous concepts, frameworks, and stories. You are welcome to cite our materials in academic, educational, and community writing. However, citation does not grant permission to adapt, repurpose, modify, or use our concepts, language, or frameworks in program design, research methodology, curricula, or derivative materials. Any such use requires express permission from Medicine Fish and appropriate Menominee cultural knowledge holders (e.g., Elders).

If you are unsure whether your intended use goes beyond citation, we invite you to reach out. Thank you for helping uphold cultural integrity, protect Indigenous intellectual property, and maintain the relational responsibilities embedded in this work.