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Valley of the Birdtail

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Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) win Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

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 鈥 the North American flatlands reaching west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains into parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta 鈥 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 鈥渄ivided by a valley, a river and 150 years of racism.鈥

鈥淲e want to start a real conversation about an equitable and shared future,鈥 Stobo Sniderman told 茄子直播 News 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 PrizeValley 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.

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