HONORS

Friends of American Writers Literary Award (Women of the Dawn)

Maine Publishers & Writers Alliance Literary Award (Indians in Eden)

American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award (Indians & Rusticators exhibition)

Selected by the Maine Historical Society as one of 100 most “notable” books written in or about Maine from 1613-2000 (Molly Spotted Elk)

Traveler’s Tales Solas Gold Award (“Before the Rain” in By the Light of the Moon)

Books & exhibits well-reviewed in numerous major publications, including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Museum News, Native Peoples, Publisher’s Weekly, Boston Globe, The New York Times, as well as in academic journals such as American Anthropologist, American Historical Review, American Indian Quarterly and Ethnohistory

Maine state legislature commendation for research and writing on the history of Native women in the state – an honor initiated by tribal representatives in the legislature. 

Prins-McBride Anthropology Travel Award

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine profile on McBride’s work with and about Wabanaki peoples.