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After a decade of honors, the High Plains Book Awards will add a category for Native American authors in its next installment.
An award for indigenous authors will be among 13 prize categories in the 2017 contest. The addition was announced Tuesday by the Montana State University Billings Library, which is sponsoring the category.
Megan Thomas, MSUB library interim director, called it "an opportunity to recognize a previously under-represented...