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Editors Award. How A Mountain Was Made. Sonoma County Historical Society.
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Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages.
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Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians.
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Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages
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Writer in Residence. Syracuse University
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"Greg Sarris Week" A week of readings at Santa Rosa Junior College.
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Governor's Commendation (from Governor Gray Davis) for Service to American Indian Community. Los Angeles.
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Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians
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California Indian Writer of the Year from the 15th Annual California Indian Conference.
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Award for Outstanding Service from California Indian Legal Services.
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Best Screenplay Nomination. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
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Best Picture. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
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Adlai Stevenson Scholar in Residence. Stevenson College. UC Santa Cruz.
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Writer in Residence. Humboldt State University.
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Writer in Residence. Dallas College.
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Greg Sarris Scholarship Fund (for Native American Students) Santa Rosa Junior College.
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Distinguished Alumnus Award. Santa Rosa Junior College.
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California Independent Booksellers Award. Best Read. Fiction. Grand Avenue.
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Cable-Ace Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Editing.
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Emmy Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Casting.
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Producer's Award. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
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Best Picture. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
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Best Screenplay. Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
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Writer in Residence. PEN Programs
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Best Story. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
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Best Picture. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
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Best Screenplay. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
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Best Picture. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
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Humanitarian Award. Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.
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Work of Literary Merit. Grand Avenue. Santa Rosa Junior College English Department.
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Required reading for all English 1A courses.
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Scholar in Residence. Greg Sarris Week. Santa Rosa Junior College.