Kinesiology and Health Studies professor James Daschuk received four awards for his book, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, at the 2014 Saskatchewan Book Awards held April 26 in Regina. The book, published by the University of Regina Press, won the University of Saskatchewan College of Arts & Science and Library Non-Fiction Award, the Drs. Morris & Jacqui Shumiatcher Regina Book Award, the National Bank Financial Wealth Management First Book Award, and the University of Regina Arts and Luther College Award for Scholarly Writing.