GREETINGS!

 

On this list you will find the nominations for Best 2010 First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize (for a book published in 2010), and “Most Though-Provoking Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies for 2010.”

As a reminder, the prize committee is designating a slate of finalists for this prize, to be announced at the Third Annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association in Sacramento, May 19-21, 2011.  The 2012 membership of NAISA will vote on the slate of finalists and the prizes will be awarded at the Fourth Annual meeting of NAISA at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center on June 3-6, 2012.  Balloting will take place via the NAISA website in early 2012.

 

Best 2010 First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize

 

Maria Castellanos, A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010).

 

David A. Chang, The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

 

Monica Diaz, Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010).

 

Vicente M. Diaz, Repositioning the Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).

 

Patricia Lopes Don, Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524-1540. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

 

Linda LeGarde Grover, The Dance Boots (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010).

 

Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

Scott Lyons, X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2010).

 

Brenda MacDougall, One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2010).

 

Patricia McCormack, "We like to be free in this country": Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788-1920s (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2010).

 

Barbra A. Meek, We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010).

 

Cary Miller, Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Janis B. Nuckolls, Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010).

 

Susan Roy, These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010).

 

Jeffrey P. Shepherd, We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010).

 

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

 

Wynne L. Summers, Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe: Macy, Nebraska, 2004-2005 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Susan Supernaw, Muscogee Daughter: My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Christopher B. Teuton, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Eleanor Wake, Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

 

Gray H. Whaley, Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792–1859 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

 

Michael J. Zogry, Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

 

 

Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize (for a book published in 2010)

 

Michael Robert Evans, The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Loretta Fowler, Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

 

Alexandra Harmon, Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

 

Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

 

Laughlin McDonald, American Indians and the Fight for Indian Voting Rights. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).  

 

Tiya Miles, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

 

Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt and Tracey Lindberg, Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

 

Jean M. O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010).

 

Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey Jr. Seminole Voices: Reflections on Their Changing Society, 1970-2000 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

 

Phillip H. Round. Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

 

Anton Treuer, The Assassination of Hole in the Day (St. Paul: Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press), 2010.

 

 

Nominations, Most Though-Provoking Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize

 

Kekuewa Kikiloi, “Rebirth of an Archipelago:  Sustaining a Hawaiian Cultural Identity for People and Homeland,” Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being 6 (2010):  73-113.

 

Danika Medak-Saltzman, “Transnational Indigenous Exchange:  Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition,” American Quarterly 62 (2010):  591-615.

 

William Millikan, “The Great Treasure of the Fort Snelling Prison Camp,” Minnesota History 62 (2010):  4-17.

 

Dean Itsuji Saranillo, “Colliding Histories:  Hawai’i Statehood at the Intersection of Asians ‘Ineligible to Citizenship’ and Hawaiians ‘Unfit for Self-Government,” Journal of Asian American Studies 13 (2010):  283-309.