October 30, 2024, 10:15pm

In a ceremony today in Montreal, Jury Chair Rana Mitter announced the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which honors books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” This year’s winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse appeal,” and chosen from a shortlist of eight, is Kathleen DuVal, for her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House).

“One of the most wonderful things about Native Nations by Katheleen DuVal is that it brings unexpected and, to many readers, unknown aspects of that story, to prominence,” said Mitter, according to a press release. “She does this by bringing in historians and analysts of the Indigenous American experience from within their own scholarship, bringing the story to the forefront of our wider understanding in this huge sweeping history that starts more than 1000 years ago and brings us up to the present day.”

DuVal will take home a prize of $75,000.