# Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, formerly the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, is an annual literary award awarded by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to the previous year's best nonfiction book on the Great Plains. The books are required to be full-length, first editions, in English, and published/copyrighted the previous year. Winning the prize is accompanied by a $10,000 cash award. The prize was established in 2005.
In 2012, no winner was chosen due to a change in titling the prize. Before 2012, awards were named for the year the book was published. After 2012, awards were named for the year the award was given.
Between 2013 and 2014, the name of the award was changed from the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize to the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.

## List of winners

| Year | Title | Author | Location | Reference |
| 2005 | Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show | Louis S. Warren | University of California, Davis | |
| 2006 | Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail | Michael L. Tate | University of Nebraska Omaha | |
| 2007 | Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee | Akim Reinhardt | Towson University | |
| 2008 | The Comanche Empire | Pekka Hämäläinen | University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| 2009 | Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild | Michael Forsberg | Lincoln, Nebraska | |
| 2010 | Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains | William Y. Chalfant | Hutchinson, Kansas | |
| 2011 | The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory | James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers | Overland Park, Kansas | |
| 2012 | In 2012, no winner is listed due to a change in the year in the name of the prize. Before 2012, awards were named for the year the book was published. After 2012, awards were named for the year the award was given. | In 2012, no winner is listed due to a change in the year in the name of the prize. Before 2012, awards were named for the year the book was published. After 2012, awards were named for the year the award was given. | In 2012, no winner is listed due to a change in the year in the name of the prize. Before 2012, awards were named for the year the book was published. After 2012, awards were named for the year the award was given. | In 2012, no winner is listed due to a change in the year in the name of the prize. Before 2012, awards were named for the year the book was published. After 2012, awards were named for the year the award was given. |
| 2013 | Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice | William E. Farr | University of Montana | |
| 2014 | Architecture of Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930-2011 | Bernard Flaman | Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| 2015 | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People | Elizabeth Fenn | University of Colorado Boulder | |
| 2016 | Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People | Michel Hogue | Carleton University | |
| 2017 | American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains | Dan Flores | University of Montana | |
| 2018 | This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm | Ted Genoways | Lincoln, Nebraska | |
| 2019 | No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas | C.J. Janovy | University of Kansas | |
| 2020 | Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power | Pekka Hämäläinen | University of Oxford | |
| 2021 | the two-volume set A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation and A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation | Leo Killsback | Montana State University | |
| 2022 | I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land | Alaina Roberts | University of Pittsburgh | |