#ndns only

I actually ran into this problem when I posted my first fic. I think rez and natives accents are also regional! Like for example, when I talked to my online friend (who is black and from the Southern US) for the first time, she noted that I sounded like I was from the Northwest Coast, but that I didn’t sound white. I’m from Alberta, and as it turns out, Albertans tend to have a Northwest Coast accent. So this was my rez accent showing through in my Albertan accent, (although I think it used to be heavier when I was younger). In my case, I could probably write a Native character from Alberta as having a Northwest Coast accent, but still sound distinctly Native. I’d say listen to Natives talk and study their speech to emulate it in that way! For another example, in my area, Natives sometimes tend to add a “-ses” suffix to some plural word that ends in “-s” (ex: shorts become shortses, that’s a common one). I caught myself doing this in test recordings for my twilight rant vid lmao.

Or you could also pepper in Native slang! A lot of our slang words are sounds if you’ve noticed (ex: holaaaay, Eeeee, ayyyy), but I think if you wrote that in, it would be instantly be recognizable to Native readers.