PAST RECIPIENTS:

ARRELL M. GIBSON AWARD

2024 | Maurice Crandall, “Captive Cousins: Hoomothya, Wassaja, and a Lifetime of Unwellness,” Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2023)

2023 | Holly Miowak Guise, “‘Who is Doctor Bauer?’: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-1944,” Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2022)

2022 | Stephen Hausmann, "Erasing Indian Country: Urban Native Space and the 1972 Rapid City Flood," Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2021)

2021 | Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, "Land-Grab Universities," High Country News (March 2020)

2020 | Doug Kiel, “Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (Fall 2019)

2019 | Rodger C. Henderson, “The Piikuni and the U.S. Army's Piegan Expedition: Competing Narratives of the 1870 Massacre on the Marias River,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Spring 2018)

2018 | Monika Bilka for "Klamath Tribal Persistence, State Resistance: Treaty Rights Activism, the Threat of Tribal Sovereignty and Collaborative Natural Resource Management in the Pacific Northwest," Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2017)

2017 | Brianna Theobald for “Nurse, Mother Midwife: Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and the Struggle for Crow Women's Reproductive Autonomy,” Montana The Magazine of Western History (Fall 2016)

2016 | Allyson Stevenson for “The Adoption of Frances T: Blood, Belonging, and Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Twentieth Century Canada,” The Canadian Journal of History (Winter 2015)

2015 | Khalil Johnson for “The Chinle Dog Shoots: Federal Governance and Grass-roots Politics in Postwar Navajo Country,” Pacific Historical Review (February 2014)

2014 | Sarah M.S. Pearsall for “Having Many Wives in Two American Rebellions,” American Historical Review (October 2014)

2013 | Steven Sabol for “Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization: The ‘Touch of Civilisation’ on the Sioux and Kazakhs,” Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2012)

2012 | Jesse Schreier for “Indian or Freedman?: Enrollment, Race and Identity in the Choctaw Nation,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2011)

2011 | Khal Schneider for “Making Indian Land in the Allotment Era: Northern California's Indian Rancherias,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2010)

2009 | Benjamin Madley for “California‘s Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History,” Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2008)

2007 | Dr. Paul C. Rosier for “’They Are Ancestral Homelands’: Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961,” Journal of American History (March 2006)

2006 | Margaret D. Jacobs for “Material Colonialism: White Women and Indigeneous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2005)

2005 | Jessica R. Cattelino for “Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminole Economic Development,” in Colleen O‘Neill  and  Brian Hosmer, eds., Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Colorado, 2004)

2004 | Pekka Hämäläinen for “The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures,” Journal of American History (December 2003)

2003 | Thomas G. Andrews for “Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2002)

2002 | Andrew Fisher for “They Mean to Be Indian Always: The Origins of Columbia River Identity, 1860-1885,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2001)

2001 | Paige Raibmon for “Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwada ‘wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World‘s Fair,” Canadian Historical Review (June 2000)

2000 | James F. Brooks for “Violence, Justice and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880,” in Richard White and John M. Findley, editors, Power and Place in the North American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999)

1999 | Elliott West for “Called Out People: They Cheyennes and the Central Plain,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Summer 1998)

1998 | Nancy Shoemaker for “How Indians Got to be Red,” American Historical Review (June 1997)

1997 | Gregory Evans Dowd for “The Panic of 1751: The Significance of Rumors on the South Carolina-Cherokee Frontier,” William and Mary Quarterly (July 1996)