Círculo de escritores nativos de las Américas

El Círculo de escritores nativos de las Américas (en inglés Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, NWCA) es una organización de escritores amerindios que premia escritores nativos americanos en las tres categorías de abajo.^[1]

Fundado en 1992 tras el Festival de Escritores Nativos "Returning the gift" con apoyo del departamento de estudios amerindios de la Universidad de Oklahoma.

Premios

A la trayectoria

1992 Scott Momaday (Kiowa-Cherokee)
1993 Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma)
1994 Leslie Marmon Silko (Pueblo de Laguna)
1995 Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek)
1996 Vine Deloria Jr (Standing Rock Sioux)
1997 James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre)
1998 Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
1999 Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
2000 Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
2001 Paula Gunn Allen (Kawaik) y Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Chippewa)
2002 Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
2003 Geary Hobson (Cherokee-Quapaw-Chickasaw)
2004 Lee Francis (Kawaik)
2005 Carter Revard (Osage)
2006 Luci Tapahonso (Navajo)
2007 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux)
2008 Robert J. Conley (Cherokee)
2009 Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan Renape-Lenape)
2010 Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur D'Alene)
2011 Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee)
2012 LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)
2013 Donald L. Birchfield (Choctaw -Chickasaw)
2014 Diane Glancy ( Cherokee)
2015 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron-Cherokee)
2016 John Trudell (Santee Dakota) y Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac Ojibwe)
2017 Duane Niatum (Klallam)

Prosa

1992 Robert L. Perea (Oglala Lakota), Stacey's Story
- Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), The Lasting of the Mohegans
- William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine), The Star Quilter
1993 Philip H. Red Eagle (Sioux-Klallam), Red Earth
1994 Gus Palmer, Jr. (Kiowa), Calling Through the Creek
1995 Glenn J. Twist (Cherokee-Muscogee Creek), Boston Mountain Tales
1996 -
1997 Robert J. Perry (Chickasaw), Life With the Little People
- D. L. Birchfield (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test
1998 Desert.
1999 Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta-Ohkay Owingeh), Night Sky, Morning Star
2000 Chip Livingston (Florida Creek), Naming Ceremony
2001 Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee), Naturally Native
2002 Edythe S. Hobson (Arkansas Quapaw), An Inquest Every Sunday
2003 Susan Supernaw (Muscogee Creek-Munsee), The Power of a Name
2004 Kimberly G. Roppolo (Cherokee-Choctaw-Muscogee Creek), Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics
2005 Mia Heavener (Central Yup'ik), Tundra Berries
2006 Judy R. Smith (Quinnipiac-Mohican), Yellowbird
- Frederick White (Haida), Welcome to the City of Rainbows
2007 Mary Lockwood (Malemuit Iñupiaq), Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is
2008 Linda LeGarde Grover Chippewa, Bois Forte Band of Minnesota "The Road Back to Sweetgrass"
2009 JudyLee Oliva (Chickasaw), Te Ata and Other Plays

Poesía

1992 Gloria Bird (Spokane), Full Moon on the Reservation
- Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya (Yuchi-Comanxe), Leaving Holes
1993 Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Chippewa), Trailing You
1994 Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock Sioux), Outlaws, Renegades and Saints
1995 Denise Sweet (White Earth Chippewa), Songs for Discharming
1996 Charles G. Ballard (Quapaw-Cherokee), Winter Count Poems
1997 Deborah A. Miranda (Costano-Esselen-Ohlone), Indian Cartography
1998 Jennifer K. Greene (Salish-Kootenai-Chippewa-Cree), What I Keep
1999 Janet McAdams (Muscogee), The Island of Lost Luggage
2000 Karenne Wood (Monacan), Markings on Earth
2001 Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki), Billboard in the Clouds
2002 Renee Matthew (Koyukon), Down River From Here
- Phillip Caroll Morgan (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
2003 Marlon D. Sherman (Oglala Lakota), Wild Plums
2004 Christina M. Castro (Jemez-Taos), Silence on the Rez
- Cathy Ruiz (Cree-Métis), Stirring up the Water
2005 Kim Shuck (Cherokee-Sac i Fox), Smuggling Cherokee
2006 Rebecca Hatcher Travis (Chickasaw), Picked Apart the Bones
2007 Kade L. Twist (Cherokee Nation), Amazing Grace
2008 Steve Russell(Cherokee Nation), "Wicked Dew"
2009 Rain C. Gomez (Louisiana ChoctawCriollo-Mvskogean-Métis-Celta Americano), Smoked Mullet Cornbread Memory