A history professor from the University of Saskatchewan is being given a prestigious honour.
Keith Carlson has won this year’s New Researcher Award.
His recent book examines the shifting identity of a First Nation on the West Coast before and after colonialism.
Some of his other accomplishments include a collaboration with Metis scholars in northwest Saskatchewan.
The work they did together was the basis for an exhibit at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre called “West Side Stories: The Metis of Northwest Saskatchewan.”
Carlson also helped out with the documentary “The Lynching of Louie Sam”, which examined the hanging death of an Aboriginal youth in the U.S. in 1884.