- Featured as writer (fiction and film) in every major newspaper and magazine in this country, including 27 cover stories.
- Appeared as writer/Indian leader on over one hundred radio and television shows, including all the major morning talk shows.
- E! Entertainment Television Channel’s one of twenty men selected as 1997’s World’s Most Eligible Bachelors (with George Clooney, etc.)
- Advisor and Represented Scholar. American Passages; a sixteen-part television series on American Literature. Oregon Public Broadcasting/Annenberg Foundation.
- Board of Directors, Survivors Project. 1999-current.
- Advisor, PEN WEST. 1999-current.
- Advisor, Independent Feature Project/West. 1999-current.
- Advisor, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Cultural Grant Program’s
- Literary Arts Panel. 1998-1999.
- Advisor, Sundance Institute. 1996-current.
- Teacher, Sundance Writer’s Lab. Summer, 1998.
- Board of Directors, The National Video Project. 1997-current.
- Honorary President, Word for Word Theatre. 1996-current.
- Chairman, The Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria. 1992- current.
