About Greg Sarris

1996

Scholar in Residence. Greg Sarris Week. Santa Rosa Junior College.

1996

Required reading for all English 1A courses.

1996

Work of Literary Merit. Grand Avenue. Santa Rosa Junior College English Department.

1996

Humanitarian Award. Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.

1996

Best Picture. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.

1996

Best Screenplay. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.

1996

Best Picture. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.

1996

Best Story. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.

1996

Writer in Residence. PEN Programs

1997

Best Screenplay. Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.

1997

Best Picture. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.

1997

Producer’s Award. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.

1997

Emmy Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Casting.

1997

Cable-Ace Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Editing.

1997

California Independent Booksellers Award. Best Read. Fiction. Grand Avenue.

1997

Distinguished Alumnus Award. Santa Rosa Junior College.

1997

Greg Sarris Scholarship Fund (for Native American Students) Santa Rosa Junior College.

1997

Writer in Residence. Dallas College.

1997

Writer in Residence. Humboldt State University.

1997

Adlai Stevenson Scholar in Residence. Stevenson College. UC Santa Cruz.

July 1998

Best Picture. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.

July 1998

Best Screenplay Nomination. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.

September 26, 1998

Award for Outstanding Service from California Indian Legal Services.

October 2000

California Indian Writer of the Year from the 15th Annual California Indian Conference.

2001

Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians