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  • Announcement

Please join the SAIL Editorial Board in congratulating Kirby Brown, whose essay “Citizenship, Land, and Law: Constitutional Criticism and John Milton Oskison’s Black Jack Davy,” published in SAIL 23.4, has won the Don D. Walker Award for the best essay published in western literary studies. The annual award is sponsored by the Western Literature Association, and Professor Brown will be recognized for his achievement at the upcoming Western Literature Association conference in Lubbock, Texas, in November 2012.

The Award committee offered high praise of Professor Brown’s winning essay:

Brown’s method of Indigenizing reading is revelatory. He reframes the popular western genre, providing an exciting challenge to its fundamental assumptions (and territorial thefts) through his identification of the ‘Cherokee western.’ He models ‘the potential of using tribally specific constitutional traditions as a lens through which to read tribal-national literatures’ by recuperating an under-valued novel with thorough historical scholarship, good close reading, and, as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, a compelling understanding of the stakes involved in this critical and cultural work.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. [End Page ix]

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