Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, which in part highlighted Macdonald's role in the forced starvation of Plains Indigenous peoples in the late 19th century. Daschuk noted that winning the award for this book was "ironic" and was vocally in favour of rebranding the prize. In May 2018 at its annual meeting in Regina, CHA members voted overwhelmingly in favour of the name change, by a margin of 121–11. The prize was renamed the CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize. Controversy Several Canadian historians are concerned that the CHA has been recently "more about activism than good scholarship" or that from the 1990s onwards the CHA has moved too close to social history at the expense of political history, diplomatic history and military history. For example, on 1 July 2021, the CHA issued a statement regarding Canada's past treatment of Indigenous peoples, claiming the existence of a "broad consensus" among historical experts that "genocidal intent has been amply established". In response, on 12 August The Dorchester Review published an open letter from 53 historians (many of whom were past members of the CHA) disputing this claim. Authors included Margaret MacMillan; Robert J. Young; Robert Bothwell; J.L. Granatstein, author of Who Killed Canadian History?; and Prof Jim Miller, emeritus professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. This letter was in turn criticized immediately by seven historians in Native American studies. Prizes As part of its mandate to promote and recognize excellence in historical research, the CHA administers the following prizes: François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years honours an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, an annual prize for non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past The Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, an annual prize for an outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history The Clio Prizes, given for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history The Albert B. Corey Prize, an award once every two years jointly with the American Historical Association, for best book dealing with the history of Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries The John Bullen Prize, awarded for the outstanding historical dissertation written for a doctoral degree at a Canadian university The CHA Journal Prize, awarded