The Kluane First Nation has won this year’s Indigenous History Book Prize, an annual national award that honours the best book about Indigenous history.

Lhù’ààn Mân Keyí Dań Kwánje Nààtsat: Kluane Lake Country People Speak Strong, published last year by Figure 1 Publishing, commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Yukon First Nation’s self-governance agreement. In the book, Elders share stories from their lives, knowledge of their traditional territory in southwestern Yukon, and insights about building their self-governing First Nation.

The prize, awarded by the Indigenous History Group, a committee affiliated with the Canadian Historical Association, was given at a ceremony in Montreal on June 18.

“Lhù’ààn Mân Keyí Dań Kwánje Nààtsat: Kluane Lake Country People Speak Strong is a truly collaborative, transdisciplinary, historical, prescient, and creative work with broad appeal,” CHA said at the award ceremony in Montréal.