Awards

2012~ s3hlihl; 'Teaching By Example' .

2012~ Artist Trust Fellow 
2012 ~ First People's Fund Cultural Capitol's Fellow

2011 ~ Artist's Trust Fellowship award.

2010~ Cultural Capital Fellowship: First People's Fund. Rapid City, SD. also awarded in 2006 and 2003

2009~ Washington State Historical Society: "In the Spirit" Ancestral Award Contemporary Northwest Native Arts Exhibit and Art Market Ribbon Award.

2008~ Folk Arts Fellowship: Washington State Arts Commission by NEA.

2008~ Governors Heritage Award Washington State.

2007~ National Native Creative Development Award and National Fund for Folk Art Fellowship Award.

2006~ Cultural Capital Fellowship plus Artist in Business Fellowship Award: First Peoples Fund. Native Arts Fellowship: Potlatch Fund. Seattle WA

2005~ Accepted to 'Te Mata' Indigenous Artist Gathering, Hastings New  Zealand.

2004~ Honored as Cultural Treasure, BYU Ceremony held at Washington Center for Performing Arts.

2003~National Award: First Peoples Fund, Community Spirit Award,

       Resident Artist, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA.

       Resident Artist, Longhouse Education Center, Evergreen State College.

2002~ Resident Artist, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma.

2001~ Resident Artist, Longhouse Education Center,

Evergreen State College Resident Artist, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2000~ Master/Apprentice Award, Washington State Arts                

Commission.

1999~ Resident Artist, Longhouse Education Center,                     

Evergreen State College.

1998~ Resident Artist, Longhouse Education Center,                     

 Evergreen State College, WA State Arts                             

Commission Fellow, Master/Apprentice Award.

1997~ Indian Art North West, Portland, OR. Ribbon Award.1994~ Northwest Concepts, Fellow 1994-1996. Sandpoint, Idaho.
1987~ House Post - Honoring Peterson family at Skokomish.
1982~ National Endowment for the Arts *3 Year Project*1981~ Acknowledged and honored at Skokomish for returning the bentwood box.