| 1992 | Gloria Bird | Full Moon on the Reservation | Spokane |
| Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya | Making Holes | Yuchi - Comanche |
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| 1993 | Kimberly Blaeser | Trailing You | White Earth Chippewa |
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| 1994 | Tiffany Midge | Outlaws, Renegades and Saints | Standing Rock Sioux |
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| 1995 | Denise Sweet | Songs for Discharming | White Earth Chippewa |
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| 1996 | Charles G. Ballard | Winter Count Poems | Quapaw - Cherokee |
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| 1997 | Deborah A. Miranda | Indian Cartography | Costanoan - Esselen - Ohlone |
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| 1998 | Jennifer K. Greene | What I Keep | Salish-Kootenai/ Chippewa - Cree |
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| 1999 | Janet McAdams | The Island of Lost Luggage | Alabama Creek |
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| 2000 | Karenne Wood | Markings on Earth | Monacan |
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| 2001 | Suzanne Rancourt | Billboard in the Clouds | Abenaki |
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| 2002 | Renee Matthew | Down River From Here | Koyukon |
| | Phillip Caroll Morgan | The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store | Choctaw- Chickasaw |
| 2003 | Marlon D. Sherman | Wild Plums | Oglala Lakota |
| 2004 | Christina M. Castro | Silence on the Rez | Jemez Pueblo - Taos Pueblo |
| | Cathy Ruiz | Stirring up the Water | Cree-Métis |
| 2005 | Kim Shuck | Smuggling Cherokee | Cherokee-Sac & Fox |
| 2006 | Rebecca Hatcher Travis | Picked Apart the Bones | Chickasaw |