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| Winners - 2011 Clio Prize - The North | | | The CHA is proud to annonce that this year's winner of the Clio Prize for he North are Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith, for their book People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich’in Elders / Googwandak Nakhwach’ànjòo Van Tat Gwich’in. The Clio prizes are awared to to meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history. People of the Lakes is an expansive oral history of the Van Tat Gwich’in people of northern Yukon told largely in their own words. The book is visually stunning, with archival photographs and contemporary images serving as important companions to the stories of the land that are so important in the interviews. As a meditation on place, identity, tradition, social and cultural change, and the communication of knowledge from generation to generation, People of the Lakes is undoubtedly one of the very best of the many community-based oral histories that have been produced in northern Canada. | | |
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