“One of the most wonderful things about Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal is that it brings unexpected and, to many readers, unknown aspects of that story to prominence. She does this by bringing in historians and analysts of the Indigenous American experience from within their own scholarship, bringing the story to the forefront of our wider understanding in this huge sweeping history that starts more than 1000 years ago and brings us up to the present day.” — Rana Mitter, 2024 Chair of the Jury
'Native Nations is full of revelatory examples about individuals, about material culture, about how Native nations lived, survived and changed over the course of hundreds and hundreds of years.' - Rebecca L. Spang
'The fierce urgency of history: that’s the force that runs through all three of our Cundill finalists.' - 2024 Jury Chair, Rana Mitter, on the finalists