Pushcart Nomination “Truce,” Yellow Medicine Review, 2020.
Pushcart Nomination “A Water Poem for Remembering“, Split This Rock Poem of the Week, 2020.
Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award Copper Yearning, Council of Wisconsin Writers, 2020.
Zona Gale Short Fiction Award “Vision Confidence Score,” Council of Wisconsin Writers, 2020.
Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 2020.
Recognition among “Wisconsin’s 38 Influential Native Americans,” Madison 365. March 2020.
Best Native Book List Copper Yearning, The Tribal College Journal, 2019.
Honorable Mention Peninsula Pulse, Hal Prize “Mystique of Small,” Vol. 25, Issue 31, 2019. 15.
Honorable Mention Short Story Contest Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts in the Rick Demarinis 2018 for “Vision Confidence Score.”
Distinguished Public Service Award University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 2018.
Pushcart Nomination “Rattle,” Vassar Review, 2016.
Fellowship Center for 21st Century Studies, 2015-2016 Academic Year.
Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-16.
Pushcart Nomination “Of Fractals and Pink Flowering,” Cowfeather Press, 2015.
Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Woodland Indian Arts Initiative, 2015.
Pushcart Nomination “Talking Rock.” 2014.
Pushcart Nomination “Reliquary.” 2012.
Drama of the Year Award Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers The Museum at Red Earth, 2012.
Outstanding Woman of Color Award UW-Milwaukee & UW System, 2012.
Pushcart Nomination “Dreams of Water Bodies.” 2011.
Grant, Arts and Humanities Travel Award Graduate School University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 2004.
Fellowship, Cultures and Communities University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 2002-2003.
Writing Award, “Writer of the Year, Personal Essay,” from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers “The Voices We Carry,” in After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography, Kate Sontag and David Graham, (eds.), Gray Wolf Press, 2002.
Nomination, Distinquished Alumnae Award College of St. Benedict, 2002.
Service Award, “Wordcrafter of the Year,” Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2002.
Research Grant, “Native Poetics in the Canon of the Americas,” Institute on Race and Ethnicity University of Wisconsin, 2001-2002 Academic Year.
Grants, from Indian Community School Foundation, Cultures and Communities, and Wisconsin Humanities Council for the Conference “Writing in Native Communities, Native Writing Communities,” 2001-2002.
Artist Fellowship, Award in Poetry Wisconsin Arts Board, 2001.
Lecture Award, Writer of the Year Award in the Category of Lectures Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, 1999.
Poem Installation: “Living History” selected for installation in the Midwest Express Building in Milwaukee, 1998.
Inaugural Lecturer chosen for Western Canada Lecture Series in 1995.
Fellowship Center for Twentieth Center Studies, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1993-94 Academic Year.
Scholarship George Miller American Indian Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Program, 1994.
Book Award for Trailing You, Diane Decorah First Book Award in Poetry Returning the Gift, Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, 1993.
Lecture Selection, Talk Selected by Writers’ Conferences and Festivals for anthology of Best Lectures, 1992.
Research Award University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity, Spring 1992.
Grant Zahm Research Travel Fund, University of Notre Dame, 1987.
Fellowship Frances C. Allen Fellow, The Newberry Library, D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, 1/85-6/85.