2007
Mary Lockwood (Malemuit Inupiaq), Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is 2006 Judy
R. Smith (Quinnipiac, Mohican), Yellowbird Frederick White (Haida), Welcome to the City of Rainbows
2005 Mia Heavener
(Central Yup'ik), Tundra Berries 2004
Kimberly G. Roppolo (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek), Back to the Blanket: Reading,
Writing and
Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics
2003 Susan Supernaw
(Creek-Munsee), The Power of a Name 2002
Edythe S. Hobson (Arkansas Quapaw), An Inquest Every Sunday
2001 Valerie Red
Horse (Cherokee), Naturally Native 2000 Chip
Livingston (Creek, Poarch Band), Naming Ceremony
1999 Evelina Zuni
Lucero (Isleta-San Juan Pueblo), Time and Chance, U of Arizona Press
1998 No Award
1997 Robert J.
Perry (Chickasaw), Life With the Little People, Greenfield Review Press
D. L. Birchfield (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test,
Greenfield Review Press
1996 No Award
1995 Glenn J.
Twist (Cherokee-Creek), Boston Mountain Tales, Greenfield Review Press
1994 Gus Palmer
(Kiowa), Calling Through the Creek, U of Arizona Press
1993
Philip H.
Red-Eagle (Sioux-Klallam), Red Earth, Holy Cow! Press
1992
Robert L. Perea (Pine Ridge Sioux), Stacy's Story [Fiction], West End
Press
Melissa Jayne Fawcett (Mohegan), The Lastiong of the Mohegans
[Nonfiction], The MoheganTribe
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine), The Star Quilter [Drama],
(Unpublished)