Awards
Saskatchewan Book Awards for The Bulrush Helps the Pond(Ken Carriere, 2002), Metis Legacy (Lawrence J. Barkwell, Leah Dorion, Darren R. Prefontaine, 2001), Expressing Our Heritage: Metis Artistic Designs (Cheryl Troupe, 2003), The Métis Alphabet Book (Joseph Jean Fauchon, 2006), Dancing in My Bones (Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton, 2009), and most recently, winning the Publishing Award and Book of the Year for Gabriel Dumont: Li Chef Michif in Images and in Words (Darren R. Prefontaine, 2011). The GDI Publishing Department has also received many more nominations for their resources from the Saskatchewan Book Awards.
Other awards for the GDI Publishing Department include the 2009 Corporate Partner of the Year which recognized the partnership between GDI and the Batoche National Historic Park at the Saskatchewan Tourism Awards of Excellence. In 2010, Dancing in My Bones also won a Moonbeam Gold Medal Spirit Award for Native Folklore.
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