Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize (formerly the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize) is an annual literary award awarded by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to the previous year's best non-fiction book on the Great Plains. Eligible books must be full-length, first editions in English, published or copyrighted within the previous year. The prize was established in 2005 and includes a $10,000 cash award.^[1][2]

Prior to 2012, when no award was presented, the prize was given according to the publication year of the book. Since 2012, awards have been named according to the year the award was presented.^[3]

List of winners

Year	Title[1][3]	Author	Location
2005	Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show	Louis S. Warren	University of California, Davis
2006	Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail	Michael L. Tate	University of Nebraska Omaha
2007	Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee	Akim Reinhardt	Towson University
2008	The Comanche Empire	Pekka Hämäläinen	University of California, Santa Barbara
2009	Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild	Michael Forsberg	Lincoln, Nebraska
2010	Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains	William Y. Chalfant	Hutchinson, Kansas
2011	The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory	James N. Leiker Ramon Powers	Overland Park, Kansas
2012	Award not presented
2013	Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice[4]	William E. Farr	University of Montana
2014	Architecture of Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930-2011[5]	Bernard Flaman	Saskatchewan, Canada
2015	Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People	Elizabeth A. Fenn	University of Colorado Boulder
2016	Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People[6]	Michel Hogue	Carleton University
2017	American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains	Dan Flores	University of Montana
2018	This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm	Ted Genoways	Lincoln, Nebraska[7]
2019	No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas[8]	C.J. Janovy	University of Kansas
2020	Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power[9]	Pekka Hämäläinen	University of Oxford
2021	A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation[10]	Leo Killsback	Montana State University
2022	I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land[11]	Alaina Roberts	University of Pittsburgh
2023	Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation	Douglas Sanderson Andrew Stobo Sniderman	University of Toronto
2024	Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir	Thomas C. Gannon	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2025	By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land	Rebecca Nagle