Honors and Legacy
- In 1974, after the publication of God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Time Magazine named him as one of the primary "shapers and movers" of Christian faith and theology.
- In 1996, Deloria received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
- In 1999, he received the Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award in the category of prose and personal/critical essays for his work Spirit and Reason.
- 2002, he received the Wallace Stegner award from the Center of the American West and was honorably mentioned at the 2002 National Book Festival.
- 2003, won the 2003 American Indian Festival of Words Author Award.
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