Most Influential Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies of the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century Prize (awarded 2011)

Noenoe Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

Philip J. Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004).

Robert Warrior, The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective,  Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Phillip Carroll Morgan, Kimberly Roppolo, Cheryl Suzack, Christopher Teuton, Sean Teuton, Robert Warrior, and Craig S. Womack  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).

Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

Taiaiaike Alfred, Wasa’se: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2005).

Chadwick Allen, Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002).

Tiya Miles, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

David Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002).

Most Though-Provoking Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, 2010 (awarded 2011)

Chris Andersen, “Critical Indigenous Studies: From Difference To Density,” Cultural Studies Review 15, no. 2 (2009): 80-100.

Student Paper Prize

Kimberly Robertson, UCLA, “ReLocating Violence:  Urbanity, the Construction of Identity, and Violence Against Native Women”