2023 Book Prize Winner Announced: Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) win the $12,000
J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for 2023
Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) have won the 2023 John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize for Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation published by HarperCollins Publishing Ltd.
Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)’s work is the unanimous choice of this year’s jury. Jury Chair Mary Agnes Welch describes the winning book this way: “Valley of the Birdtail is the most clear-eyed and compassionate book on the legacy of Indigenous inequality I’ve read. It’s maddening in parts, wryly funny in other parts, and its vivid characters – prairie Canadians will recognize them all – bring the complex national issue of white supremacy right down to John Dafoe’s backyard.”
The Prize will be formally awarded at the J.W. Dafoe Foundation’s Book Prize Event this fall in Winnipeg. The J.W. Dafoe Foundation thanks this year’s dedicated jury members, Dr. Dale Barbour, Dr. Gregory Mason, and Ms. Mary Agnes Welch, for their service to the J.W. Dafoe Foundation and their selection of Valley of the Birdtail for the 2023 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize.
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