A U.S. historian’s book on North America’s Indigenous history, \u201cNative Nations: A Millennium in North America,\u201d has won the Cundill History Prize. The honour comes with US$75,000 for author Kathleen DuVal, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Random House release was praised for the way it reframes 1,000 years of North America\u2019s history in putting \u201cIndigenous power and sovereignty at its centre.\u201d Fellow finalists Gary J. Bass for \u201cJudgement at Tokyo\u201d and Dylan C. Penningroth for \u201cBefore the Movement,\u201d were each awarded US$10,000. The Cundill History Prize celebrates a book of non-fiction written in or translated into English. It is open to writers of any nationality, for books from anywhere in the world. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct…. <\/p>\n
A U.S. historian’s book on North America’s Indigenous history, \u201cNative Nations: A Millennium in North America,\u201d has won the Cundill History Prize. The honour comes with US$75,000 for author Kathleen DuVal, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Random House release was praised for the way it reframes 1,000 years of North America\u2019s history in putting \u201cIndigenous power and sovereignty at its centre.\u201d Fellow finalists Gary J. Bass for \u201cJudgement at Tokyo\u201d and Dylan C. Penningroth for \u201cBefore the Movement,\u201d were each awarded US$10,000. The Cundill History Prize celebrates a book of non-fiction written in or translated into English. It is open to writers of any nationality, for books from anywhere in the world. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct.... <\/p>\n