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Douglas B. Bamforth - the 2026 PAS Distinguished Service Award Recipient

For dedicated service to Great Plains anthropology, the PAS Board of Directors was honored to present the 2026 Distinguished Service Award to Douglas B. Bamforth on October 23 at the 83rd Plains Anthropological Conference in Lincoln, NE.

A full announcement detailing Doug's contribution to the field will be published in an upcoming issue of Plains Anthropologist.

New Board Members and Committee Assignments

Welcome to our three newly elected Board of Directors members!

Crystal Dozier (Wichita State University)
Nolan Johnson (Nebraska State Historical Society)
Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge)

Thanks to outgoing board members Tim Reed, Abby Fisher, and Gary Wowchuk for their contributions over the past three years as well as Andrew Clark for his service as President. Andrew will remain on the board in 2027 as Past President.

Native American Student Award Recipients

This year's Native American Student Award Recipients are Shema Yearly-Lincoln at Oklahoma State University, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and Christine Parker at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Congratulations to both of you!

Student Paper Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2026 Student Paper Award Winners from the 83rd Conference in Lincoln, NE! The award is a cash payment of $300 to undergraduates and $400 to graduate students. The winners were announced at the conference banquet.

Graduate: Miles Rhoads and Jessica Gammage (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - One Ocean, Two Worlds: Southern Pomo and Native Hawaiian Navigations of Biological Anthropology

Student Poster Competition Winners

Congratulations to the 2026 Student Poster Competition Winners from the 83rd Conference in Lincoln, NE! The award is a cash payment of $300 to undergraduates and $400 to graduate students. The winners were announced at the conference banquet.

Undergraduate: Shema Yearly-Lincoln (Oklahoma State University) - P Beadwork as Intergenerational Cultural Knowledge: An Autoethnographic Perspective

Graduate: Larkin Chapman (University of New Mexico) - New Radiocarbon Dates Confirm Pleistocene Horse Contemporaneity with Clovis Culture in Alberta

Call for Papers - Plains Anthropologist

Article and report submissions to Plains Anthropologist are appreciated by the journal's editors, and your continued support is necessary to get the journal back on its publication schedule. This is a great time to submit your research and have it published quickly. If you have previously submitted an article/report that has already been peer reviewed and you have not yet resubmitted it, please consider making the revisions. If you have questions about the suitability of an article/report for Plains Anthropologist, please contact co-editors Marcel Kornfeld (editor@plainsanthropologicalsociety.org) and Allison Grunwald (agrunwald@plainsanthropologicalsociety.org).

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction now available

The Introduction volume for the Handbook of North American Indians has been published and is available free download or for purchase as a hard copy. Earlier published volumes of the handbook are only available as hard copies. The link for the free download is:

https://scholarlypress.si.edu/store/new-releases/handbook-north-american-indians-volume-1-introduct/