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History Undergrads Make Their Mark SHOWING THE LINK BETWEEN WILD HORSES AND TRIBAL RIGHTS Dr. Frances K. Millican Fund for Undergraduate Research Projects in History: Alison Roth. Friends of History Scholarship: Judy Sam. Bryan Phillips Scholarship: Daniel Gray. Virginia Brandeberry Denison and Mark Kernaghan Endowed Scholarship: Matthew Huang. Meder-Montgomery Family Endowed Student Support Scholarship: Kaila Eason and Janelle Hassebrock. UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS CEREMONY Maurice D. and Lois M. Schwartz Scholarship: Olivia Corti and Kelsie Haakenson. Otis Pease Award: Samantha Kilcullen and Kirstine Rivera. Faye A. Wilson Endowed Scholarship: Olivia Corti, Kaila Eason, Chaeliana Erkelens, Hannah Frisch, Kelsie Haakenson, Janelle Hassebrock, Morgan Lantz, Judy Sam, and Cameron Snyder. Dale Roger Corkery Endowed Scholarship: Jessie Brown. Thanks to our many generous donors, the Department of History is able to recognize the hard work and talent displayed by so many of our students. This year the department distributed over $180,000 to students in the form of tuition waivers, research grants, and study-abroad support! Thomas M. Power Prize for History Research Papers: Jennifer Smith (winner) and Kelsie Haakenson (honorable mention). Thomas M. Power Prize for Outstanding Graduating Senior: Hal Schrieve and Julia Tesch. Friends of History Outstanding Student Leader: Michael Moynihan. Larry Lee Sleizer Scholarship: Laura Christman, Bethany Cowman, Benjamin Green, Rachel Jecker, Isabel Martin, Isabelle Matlick, Jue Meng, Hannah Russ, Gordon Shelton-Jenck, Josephine Strauss, Brian Tillinger, Grazyna Utterback, Arthur Walker, and Thomas Zadrozny. Freedman Remak Scholarship: Gabriella Dahlin. York-Mason Award for Research Projects about African Americans in the American West: Brendan McGovern. Congratulations to Jennifer Smith, recipient of a prize from the Thomas M. Power Fund for her outstanding undergraduate research paper, "'All of This Belongs to Us': Land, Horses, and Indigenous Resistance on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1900-1950." Smith is a double major in Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) and History, with a minor in American Indian Studies. Her paper traces the long history of conflicts between the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and various non-Indian groups over the management of wild horses on Yakama tribal lands. Her study not only reconstructs how the role of horses in Yakama culture changed over time, but also situates those changes within a broader analysis of how non-Indian encroachment on Yakama land shaped policies and conflicts over the proliferation of wild horses. She charts how the Yakama historically resisted efforts imposed from outside and made horse management central to their defense of Indigenous sovereignty. She also demonstrates how convoluted historical narratives and stereotypes of native peoples have been redeployed in more recent years to discredit and challenge Yakama efforts to manage herds. 2  U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N

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