Awards

2009 NAMMY Native American Music Award

2009 Eagle Spirit Achievement Award

for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009

Joy Harjo awarded $50,000 Fellowship

Joy Harjo has been named United States Artists Rasmuson Fellows and will each receive a $50,000 grant in recognition of their cultural contributions.

They are among 50 recipients of United States Artists Rasmuson Fellowships for 2008, totaling $2.5 million. The grants recognize and reward a wide range of creativity — in the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media arts, music, theater arts and visual arts.

All 50 awardees were honored yesterday at a celebration at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

2005 Writer of the Year
by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for the script for A Thousand Roads, 2005,
made for the National Museum of the American Indian.

2003-2004 Writer of the Year - Poetry
for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (Book)

2003-2004 Storyteller of the Year
for Native Joy for Real (CD) by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of The Americas.

2003 Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Oklahoma Center
for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (Book)

2003 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry
for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (Book)

1998 Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award
For Reinventing the Enemy's Language

1995 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry.
For The Woman Who Fell From the Sky

2001 Writer of the Year/children's books
by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for her book The Good Luck Cat.

1998 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award
to work with the nonprofit group Atlatl to bring literary resources to the Native American community.

1997 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts

Musical Artist of the Year for 1996-1997
for the CD, Poetic Justice, from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.

1991 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
for In Mad Love and War

Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award

1991 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America
for the best book of poetry

1991 Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Poetry Award

1996 Bravo Award from the Albuquerque Arts Alliance

1995 Oklahoma Book Award
for The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

1994 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship

1993 Received The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT

Honorary Doctorate from Benedictine College in 1992

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in 1992 and 1978