Each year the Center for Great Plains Studies presents a prize for the previous year's best book on the Great Plains. The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize carries a cash award recently increased to $10,000. Publishers or authors may make nominations; each publisher may submit up to five titles. Only first edition, full-length, nonfiction books copyrighted in 2017 are evaluated for this year's award.
2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
2018 FINALISTS

Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention
Jaskiran Dhillon
(University of Toronto Press). Dhillon provides a series of critical reflections about settler colonialism in Canada through an investigation of Indigenous-state relations in the city of Saskatoon. A professor of Global Studies at the New School in New York, Dhillon reveals how various groups including state agents, youth workers, and community organizations utilize participatory politics to intervene in the lives of Indigenous youth living under conditions of colonial occupation and marginality.

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
Ted Genoways
(W. W. Norton & Company). Genoways, who resides in Lincoln, Neb., tells the story of the family farm, its identity, and its uncertain future. The book follows one family’s story from harvest to harvest, exploring the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farmers. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of the radical new farming landscape and one family's fight to preserve its legacy and the life they love.

Growing A Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R. Montgomery
Montgomery (W. W. Norton & Company). Montgomery, a professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, issues a passionate call to make agriculture sustainable by ditching the plow, covering the soil, and diversifying crop rotations. Cutting through standard debates about conventional and organic farming, Montgomery explores why practices based on the principles of conservation agriculture help restore soil health and fertility
PAST WINNERS
- 2017 Winner
Dan Flores
University of Montana Emeritus - 2016 Winner
Michel Hogue
Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario - 2015 Winner
Elizabeth Fenn
University of Colorado at Boulder - 2014 Winner
Bernard Flaman
Saskatchewan, Canada - 2013 Winner
William E. Farr
University of Montana - 2011 Winner
James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers
Overland Park, Kansas
- 2010 Winner
William Y. Chalfant
Hutchinson, Kansas - 2009 Winner
Michael Forsberg
Lincoln, Nebraska - 2008 Winner
Pekka Hämäläinen
University of California at Santa Barbara - 2007 Winner
Akim Reinhardt
Towson University - 2006 Winner
Michael L. Tate
University of Nebraska at Omaha - 2005 Winner
Louis S. Warren
University of California, Davis