Information:  - The term Nakota (or "Nakoda" or also "Nakona") is the endonym used by those native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of "Assiniboine" (or "Hohe"), in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada.  - The Great Sioux Nation was the political structure of the Sioux at the time of their contact with Europeans and Euro - Americans . Most of the peoples speaking a Siouan language were members of the Ohéthi Šakówi ( pronounced ( oteti akow ) ) or Seven Fires Council . The seven members are sometimes grouped into three regional / dialect groups ( Lakota , Western Dakota , and Eastern Dakota ) , but these mid-level identities were not politically institutionalized ; the seven smaller groups were separate members of one confederacy . Two Siouan peoples were not part of the Seven Fires Council : the Assiniboine and Stoney , who lived to the north of the others and were instead members of Iron Confederacy with the Cree , traditional enemies of the Sioux .  - The First Nations are the predominant Aboriginal peoples of Canada south of the Arctic. Those in the Arctic area are distinct and known as Inuit. The Métis, another distinct ethnicity, developed after European contact and relations primarily between First Nations people and Europeans. There are currently 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.   - The Sioux are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'great sioux nation'.  Choices: - area  - council  - ethnic group  - first nations  - name  - nation  - people  - term  - three
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Information:  - Pushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson (a one-time associate editor at Doubleday) and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979 Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year. It has also won the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the 2006 Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize.  - Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews.  - The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best `` poetry , short fiction , essays or literary whatnot '' published in the small presses over the previous year . Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to six works they have featured . Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976 . The founding editors are Anaïs Nin , Buckminster Fuller , Charles Newman , Daniel Halpern , Gordon Lish , Harry Smith , Hugh Fox , Ishmael Reed , Joyce Carol Oates , Len Fulton , Leonard Randolph , Leslie Fiedler , Nona Balakian , Paul Bowles , Paul Engle , Ralph Ellison , Reynolds Price , Rhoda Schwartz , Richard Morris , Ted Wilentz , Tom Montag , and William Phillips . Among the writers who received early recognition in Pushcart Prize anthologies were : Kathy Acker , Steven Barthelme , Rick Bass , Charles Baxter , Bruce Boston , Raymond Carver , Joshua Clover , Junot Diaz , Andre Dubus , William H. Gass , Seán Mac Falls , William Monahan , Paul Muldoon , Joyce Carol Oates , Tim O'Brien , Lance Olsen , Miha Mazzini , Peter Orner , Kevin Prufer , Kay Ryan , Mona Simpson , Ana Menéndez , Ladette Randolph , and Wells Tower .  - The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) with nearly 600 members. It is the professional association of American book review editors and critics, known primarily for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a set of literary awards presented every March.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'pushcart prize'.  Choices: - achievement  - anthology  - award  - book  - circle  - editor  - emphasis  - house  - news magazine  - nonprofit organization  - prize  - professional association  - publishing  - set  - time  - trade  - year
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