An essay by Clyde Ellis, professor of history, has won the 2009 Vivian Paladin Prize from the Montana Historical Society for the best scholarly essay published in the journal Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
The essay, “More Real Than The Indians Themselves: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States,” comes from research for a book-length study of the Indian hobbyist movement to be published next year by the University Press of Kansas. The essay was previously selected as one of three finalists for the 2009 Western Writers of America Prize for non-fiction and has been nominated for the 2009 Western History Association’s Arrell M. Gibson Award for the best essay on American Indian history.