Dafoe Book Prize contenders announced
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A book detailing the bumpy path to reconciliation between the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo First Nation is among the five-book short list for the $12,000 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.
The award memorializes the former editor of the Manitoba Free Press (and then Winnipeg Free Press) and recognizes books whose subject matter includes Canada, Canadians and the Canadian nation in international affairs.
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson is in contention for the prize along with Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police by David A. Wilson; Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay by Merilyn Simonds; Jackson’s Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War by Douglas Hunter; and I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance, by Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer and Jack Hicks, which was published by University of Manitoba Press.
The winner of the prize will be announced in late April, and the winner will be invited to give a talk in Winnipeg in the fall.