Return to the Storytellers Frontdoor
| 1992 | Robert L. Perea | Stacey's Story | Pine Ridge Sioux |
| Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel | The Lasting of the Mohegans | Mohegan | |
| William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. | The Star Quilter in Where the Pavement Ends | Assiniboine | |
| 1993 | Philip H. Red Eagle | Red Earth | Sioux-Klallam |
| 1994 | Gus Palmer | Calling Through the Creek | Kiowa |
| 1995 | Glenn J. Twist | Boston Mountain Tales | Cherokee-Creek |
| 1996 | No award given. | ||
| 1997 | Robert J. Perry | Life With the Little People | Chickasaw |
| D. L. Birchfield | The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test | Choctaw-Chickasaw | |
| 1998 | No award given. | ||
| 1999 | Evelina Zuni Lucero | Night Sky, Morning Star | Isleta/San Juan Pueblo |
| 2000 | Chip Livingston | Naming Ceremony | Florida Creek |
| 2001 | Valerie Red Horse | Naturally Native | Cherokee |
| 2002 | Edythe S. Hobson | An Inquest Every Sunday | Arkansas Quapaw |
| 2003 | Susan Supernaw | The Power of a Name | Creek/Munsee |
| 2004 | Kimberly G. Roppolo | Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics | Cherokee-Choctaw-Creek |
| 2005 | Mia Heavener | Tundra Berries | Central Yup'ik |
| 2006 | Judy R. Smith | Yellowbird | Quinnipiac-Mohican |
| Frederick White | Welcome to the City of Rainbows | Haida | |
| 2007 | Mary Lockwood | Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is | Malemuit Inupiaq |
| 2008 | ??? | ||
| 2009 | JudyLee Oliva | Te Ata and Other Plays | Chickasaw |