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Awards - Sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

Submissions due January 15, 2012.

The Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies

This award will be given for an outstanding essay published in 2011.

2011 Winner:
"X-Marks:Native Signatures of Assent"
Scott Richard Lyons

2010 Winner:
"An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity during the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation"
Jill Doerfler

2009 Winner:
"Native America Writes Back: The Origin of the Indigenous Paradigm in Historiography."
Susan A. Miller

2008 Winner:
"Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides."
Jodi Byrd

2007 Winner:
American Indian Literary Nationalism
Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack

The Morning Star Award in Creative Writing

Winner of the 2011 Award: Saanii Adil'ini (Tacey Atsitty

Winner of the 2010 Award: Sara Ortiz

This award honors those early Native writers whose voices guide us today. The Morning Star Award will given to an emerging creative writer for a first manuscript and will alternate between prose and poetry. An author may submit in only one genre. 2012 submissions will be in prose.

In addition to the manuscript, the applicants or nominees should submit a short (2-3 page) essay about the literary significance of one of the women listed below playing closest attention to their fiction, poetry, or plays.
How does their work speak to you as an emerging author, and to generations of American Indian writers?

Jane Schoolcraft
Alice Callahan
Pauline Johnson
Zitkala-Sa
Ella Deloria

Send inquiries, nominations, or submissions to pjhafen@unlv.nevada.edu.

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