About Greg Sarris

  • 2018 March
    Editors Award. How A Mountain Was Made. Sonoma County Historical Society.
  • 2003
    Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages.
  • 2003
    Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians.
  • 2003 January
    Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages
  • 2002 October
    Writer in Residence. Syracuse University
  • 2002 October 11-18
    “Greg Sarris Week” A week of readings at Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 2001 November
    Governor’s Commendation (from Governor Gray Davis) for Service to American Indian Community. Los Angeles.
  • 2001
    Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians
  • 2000 October
    California Indian Writer of the Year from the 15th Annual California Indian Conference.
  • 1998 September 25
    Award for Outstanding Service from California Indian Legal Services.
  • 1998 July
    Best Screenplay Nomination. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
  • 1998 July
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
  • 1997
    Adlai Stevenson Scholar in Residence. Stevenson College. UC Santa Cruz.
  • 1997
    Writer in Residence. Humboldt State University.
  • 1997
    Writer in Residence. Dallas College.
  • 1997
    Greg Sarris Scholarship Fund (for Native American Students) Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 1997
    Distinguished Alumnus Award. Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 1997
    California Independent Booksellers Award. Best Read. Fiction. Grand Avenue.
  • 1997
    Cable-Ace Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Editing.
  • 1997
    Emmy Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Casting.
  • 1997
    Producer’s Award. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1997
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1997
    Best Screenplay. Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1996
    Writer in Residence. PEN Programs
  • 1996
    Best Story. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
  • 1996
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
  • 1996
    Best Screenplay. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
  • 1996
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
  • 1996
    Humanitarian Award. Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.
  • 1996
    Work of Literary Merit. Grand Avenue. Santa Rosa Junior College English Department.
  • 1996
    Required reading for all English 1A courses.
  • 1996
    Scholar in Residence. Greg Sarris Week. Santa Rosa Junior College.