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Winner of
the William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction
Book on Southwestern America Published in 2006
 Violence
over the Land:
Indians
and Empires in the
Early American West
Harvard University Press: 2006
by Ned
Blackhawk
"Ned Blackhawk follows the “cycles of violence” that
were set in motion by Spanish colonization and continued
by Mexico and the United States, affecting first the
Utes of Colorado and New Mexico, then reaching deeper
into the arid recesses of the Great Basin to the Paiute
and, finally, the Western Shoshone, Blackhawk’s own
people. He is not just rephrasing what is already known,
but actually filling a void in
historical knowledge by restoring
previously overlooked peoples to the record."
--David
Wishart, Chair of the Department of Anthropology and
Geography , University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Awards received:
2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the Most
Significant First Book in American History,
OAH
2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the Best
Book of the Year, the American Society for
Ethnohistory
2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best
Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America for 2006,
2007 Robert M. Utley Award for the Best Book on
the Military History of the American Frontier,
WHA
2007 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American
Studies Association
2008
John C. Ewers Western History Association Prize
Ned
Blackhawk's specializations are North American Indian
History, Culture, and Identity from U.S. Colonial to
21st Century; Race and Multiculturalism; Comparative
Colonialisms. His current research and teaching
interests include American Indian history, U.S. West,
Spanish Borderlands, Comparative Colonialism, and Race
and Violence. Blackhawk is Associate Professor of
History at Yale University.
The $2,500
Clements Book Prize honors fine writing and original
research on the American Southwest. The competition is
open to any nonfiction book, including biography, on any
aspect of Southwestern life, past or present. The
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies is part
of SMU's Dedman College and affiliated with the
Department of History. It was created to promote
research, publishing, teaching and public programming in
a variety of fields related to the American Southwest.
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