Dr. Daniel Herman Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner (Video)

Summary: Dr. Daniel Herman, professor of history at Central Washington University, is the winner of the 5th annual Labriola Center National Book Award for his 2012 book Rim Country Exodus: A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr.Katherine Osburn from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies interviews Dr. Herman about his award winning book and writing process in the Labriola Center. Click to view interactive Transcript Download Video (MP4) About the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Awards: Arizona State University is committed to American Indian scholarship and offers several academic programs led by noted American Indian faculty including a Bachelors of Science degree in American Indian Studies, an Indigenous Teacher Preparation Program, an American Indian nursing program, and the Indian Legal Program. Books submitted for consideration for the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award cross multiple disciplines or fields of study, are relevant to contemporary North American Indian communities, and focus on modern tribal studies, modern biographies, tribal governments or federal Indian policy. Previous winners of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award are: 2008 Daniel Cobb, inaugural winner for his book Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty 2009 Paul Rosier, Associate Professor of History at Villanova for Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century 2010 Malinda Lowry, Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Race, Identity , and the Making of a Nation: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South 2011: Cathleen Cahill, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, for Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933