First Book Awards
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These awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas are the only literature prizes bestowed on Indian writers by Indian people.
First Book Awards for Poetry
| 1992 | Gloria Bird | Full Moon on the Reservation | Spokane |
| Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya | Making Holes | Yuchi - Comanche | |
| 1993 | Kimberly Blaeser | Trailing You | White Earth Chippewa |
| 1994 | Tiffany Midge | Outlaws, Renegades and Saints | Standing Rock Sioux |
| 1995 | Denise Sweet | Songs for Discharming | White Earth Chippewa |
| 1996 | Charles G. Ballard | Winter Count Poems | Quapaw - Cherokee |
| 1997 | Deborah A. Miranda | Indian Cartography | Costanoan - Esselen - Ohlone |
| 1998 | Jennifer K. Greene | What I Keep | Salish-Kootenai/ Chippewa-Cree |
| 1999 | Janet McAdams | The Island of Lost Luggage | Alabama Creek |
| 2000 | Karenne Wood | Markings on Earth | Monacan |
| 2001 | Suzanne Rancourt | Billboard in the Clouds | Abenaki |
| 2002 | Renee Matthew | Down River From Here | Koyukon |
| Phillip Caroll Morgan | The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store | Choctaw - Chickasaw | |
| 2003 | Marlon D. Sherman | Wild Plums | Oglala Lakota |
| 2004 | Christina M. Castro | Silence on the Rez | Jemez Pueblo - Taos Pueblo |
| Cathy Ruiz | Stirring up the Water | Cree-Métis | |
| 2005 | Kim Shuck | Smuggling Cherokee | Cherokee-Sac & Fox |
| 2006 | Rebecca Hatcher Travis | Picked Apart the Bones | Chickasaw |
| 2007 | Kade L. Twist | Amazing Grace | Cherokee |
First Book Awards for Prose
| 1992 | Robert L. Perea | Stacey's Story | Pine Ridge Sioux |
| Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel | The Lasting of the Mohegans | Mohegan | |
| William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. | The Star Quilter in Where the Pavement Ends | Assiniboine | |
| 1993 | Philip H. Red Eagle | Red Earth | Sioux-Klallam |
| 1994 | Gus Palmer | Calling Through the Creek | Kiowa |
| 1995 | Glenn J. Twist | Boston Mountain Tales | Cherokee-Creek |
| 1996 | No award given. | ||
| 1997 | Robert J. Perry | Life With the Little People | Chickasaw |
| D. L. Birchfield | The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test | Choctaw-Chickasaw | |
| 1998 | No award given. | ||
| 1999 | Evelina Zuni Lucero | Night Sky, Morning Star | Isleta/San Juan Pueblo |
| 2000 | Chip Livingston | Naming Ceremony | Florida Creek |
| 2001 | Valerie Red Horse | Naturally Native | Cherokee |
| 2002 | Edythe S. Hobson | An Inquest Every Sunday | Arkansas Quapaw |
| 2003 | Susan Supernaw | The Power of a Name | Creek/Munsee |
| 2004 | Kimberly G. Roppolo | Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics | Cherokee-Choctaw-Creek |
| 2005 | Mia Heavener | Tundra Berries | Central Yup'ik |
| 2006 | Judy R. Smith | Yellowbird | Quinnipiac-Mohican |
| Frederick White | Welcome to the City of Rainbows | Haida | |
| 2007 | Mary Lockwood | Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is | Malemuit Inupiaq |
