Accodales
- American Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Fools Crow (1986)
- Emmy Award. Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Documentary.
- Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
- Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France Minister of Culture (2000)
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