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.
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.
List of winners Year Title 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 William E. Farr University of Montana 2014 Architecture of Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930-2011 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 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 2019 No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas C.J. Janovy University of Kansas 2020 Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power 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 Leo Killsback Montana State University 2022 I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land 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
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