Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, BCS 2023 Prize Winner, awarded Hilda Neatby Prize for Best English-language article (2024)

June 25, 2024

BC Studies is excited to congratulate Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, the recent winner of the BC Studies Prize 2023, for also winning the Hilda Neatby Prize for Best English-language article (2024) for their work, “Looking for Lucy Homiskanis, Confronting Emily Carr: Restorying Nature, Gender, and Belonging on the Northwest Coast,”  BC Studies no. 217  (Spring  2023), 7-33. The award was announced during the CHA Congress in June, 2024.

The purpose of the Hilda Neatby Prize in Women’s History, awarded since 1982 by the CCWGH at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, is to encourage the publication of scholarly articles on women’s and gender history in Canada. Two prizes are awarded, one for the best article in English, the other for the best article in French. Below is the committee’s citation, which was read at the CHA presentation of prizes.

“The Hilda Neatby Prize Committee is honoured to recognize Sarah Hunt’s article, centered around two women: her ancestor Lucy Homiskanis and artist Emily Carr. Through her search for Lucy, Hunt reclaims Indigenous women’s voices, which are so often erased within the colonial archive, while her critique of Carr’s art deplores its selective use by museums, galleries and other cultural institutions. Drawing on both archival sources and oral history, Hunt’s article is written in an accessible and beautiful style. In “re-storying” the Northwest coast, she artfully links public and academic historical perspectives and engages with Indigenous studies, anthropology, ecology, and politics, as well as cultural and art history.”

Congratulations once again to Sarah!