NEW YORK – Two insightful books focusing on the history of Indigenous people in the United States have been honored with $10,000 awards from the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project.
Rebecca Nagle’s work, “By the Fire We Carry: The Generations — Long Fight for Justice on Native Land,” was awarded the Lukas Book Prize. This recognition is given to nonfiction books known for their “literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting.” Similarly, Kathleen DuVal’s “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America” received the Mark Lynton History Prize, reserved for titles that merge “intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.”
On the same day, two promising projects were recognized with $25,000 work-in-progress awards. These accolades were given to Susie Cagle for “The End of the West” and Dan Xin Huang for “Rutter: The Story of an American Underclass.”
The Lukas Prize Project, which began in 1998, honors the legacy of J. Anthony Lukas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist. It is managed by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Through the years, renowned writers like Robert Caro and Isabel Wilkerson have been among the recipients of these prestigious awards.