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Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) win Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Published: July 18, 2023
Writer and Professor (Amo Binashii) continue to be recognized for their co-authored 2022 book .
Stobo Sniderman, an alumnus of the Faculty of Law, and Sanderson, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law & Public Policy and the Decanal Advisor on Indigenous Issues, have been awarded the from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies.
The award, which recognizes the best non-fiction book about the Great Plains – the North American flatlands reaching west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains into parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – comes with a cash prize of $10,000 (USD).
In Valley of the Birdtail, Stobo Sniderman and Sanderson tell the story of two communities in Manitoba “divided by a valley, a river and 150 years of racism.”
“We want to start a real conversation about an equitable and shared future,” Stobo Sniderman told Թϱ last year when the book was published.
The writers will give a book prize lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln later this year.
Recently awarded the 2023 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, Valley of the Birdtail has also received an honourable mention from the , awarded by the Canadian Law and Society Association to the best book on law and society published in the previous year in English or French.
