The Labriola National American Indian Data Center at the ASU Library recently announced the recipients of the 2024 National Book Award. “Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California” by Kaitlin P. Reed was named the winner. The annual award recognizes scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous studies.
Published in 2023 by the University of Washington Press, “Settler Cannabis” explores connections between California cannabis production and the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people.
Labriola Center announces 2024 National Book Award recipients