Awards
- American Book Award for Shrouds of White Earth, 2011.
- MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011.
- Distinguished Minnesotan, Bemidji State University, 2005
- Distinguished Achievement Award, Western Literature Association, 2005
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, 2001
- PEN Excellence Award, 1996
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, 1990
- Artists Fellowship in Literature, California Arts Council, 1989
- New York Fiction Collective Prize, 1988
- American Book Award, 1988
- New York Fiction Collective Award, 1986
- Best American Indian Film, San Francisco Film Festival, 1984
- Film-in-the-Cities Award, Sundance Festival, 1983
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