Criteria For This Award
- 2009 — Purich Publishing, Negotiating the Numbered Treaties: An Intellectual and Political Biography of Alexander Morris, Robert J. Talbot
- 2008 — Canadian Plains Research Center, Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park, David McLennan
- 2007 — Canadian Plains Research Center, Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives, Bernard D. Thraves, Marilyn L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, Hansgeorg Schlichtmann (editors)
- 2006 — Coteau Books, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan, Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle
- 2005 — Canadian Plains Research Center, Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan,
- 2004 — Rivard & Littlejohn, The History of the Métis of Willow Bunch, Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn
- 2003 — Gabriel Dumont Institute, Expressing Our Heritage, Cheryl Troupe
- 2002 — Gabriel Dumont Institute, Métis Legacy, L. Barkwell, L. Dorion, D. Prefontaine
- 2001 — Native Law Centre, Emerging Justice?, Kent McNeil
- 2000 — University of Saskatchewan, Atlas of Saskatchewan, Dr. Ka-iu Fung (Editors)
- 1999 — Canadian Plains Research Center, Messages from the Real World, Ted Godwin
- 1998 — Thistledown Press, In the Clear, A Forrie, P. O'Rourke, G. Sorestad (eds)
- 1997 — University Extension Press, Creating the Prairie Xeriscape, Sara Williams