A history of Canada’s national game wins 2019 Canada Prize
A book on lacrosse takes the main prize in English, while a history of Indigenous peoples in American and European societies wins in French.
Allan Downey, Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren have won the 2019 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences, for their books, The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity and Indigenous Nationhood, and Le Piège de la liberté. Les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux. The Canada Prizes are awarded each year by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of two scholarly books, one in English and one in French, that “make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.” Each of the 10 finalists received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, or ASPP, administered by the Federation. The two winners will be honoured at a ceremony at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, held this year in Vancouver from June 1-7.
Read about the finalists in English below. See details on the French finalists here.
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