Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

Fall 2013

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 33:4 (Fall 2013).

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Copyright © 2013 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

After long deliberations by members of three subcommittees and the chairs of those committees, the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize was awarded to Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice, by William E. Farr, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. As the chair of the prize committee, I am pleased to state that many fine books were submitted for the competition, and that each of them was meritorious in some way. Nevertheless, Blackfoot Redemption is unique among the submissions-and indeed among the vast majority of accounts of Plains Native American lives in the shadows of the post-Custer and pre-American Indian Movement era-in its well researched and skillful narrative of what is a singularly incredible story.

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