Voted a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews, The Jewish Forward, Tribal College Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor

Named the 2025 One Book South Dakota and a 2024 One Book North Dakota

Winner of the 2025 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction

Winner of the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Writing

Finalist for the 2024 Subbendieck Great Plains Book Prize, and the High Plains Book Award Shortlisted for Stanford’s William Saroyan Prize for International Writing

Longlisted for a Reading the West Award