MACA nomination for Best Producer
Love, Lust and Longing

American Indian Film Festival Award
Best Supporting Actor 
Medicine River

Gemini Award Nomination
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series 
The Diviners

Gemini Award Nomination
Best Musical Score 
The Diviners

David Crowchild Memorial Award
1995

Gemini Award Nominations
Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role 
for North of 60: 
Ciao, Baby 
The Ties That Bind 
Suspicious Minds

Juno Award Nomination
Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, 1995 
No Regrets

C.F. Martin Humanitarian Award
Country Music Association 
1996

International Humanitarian Award
The Saskatchewan Country Music Association, 1996

National Aboriginal Achievement Award
1996

Juno Award Nomination
Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, 1997 
That Side of the Window

American Indian Film Festival Award
Best Song; 1998 
Before the Owl Calls My Name

Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree
Laurentian University;  1998

Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree
University of Winnipeg;  1998

Maclean's Honour Roll
1998

Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree
University of Victoria;  1999
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Canadian Aboriginal Music Award
Best Producer, 1999 
Tom Jackson and Jon Park Wheeler 
That Side Of the Window

Officer of the Order of Canada
2000

Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree
Trent University;  June 2000

Lifetime Achievement Award
Ontario Country Music Association

Saskatchewan Distinguished Service Award
2000-2001

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Lakehead University, May 2003

Honorary Degree
The University of Calgary, June 2003

Honorary Degree
The University of Lethbridge,  2004

2004 David Billington Award
from the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association

2004 Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association Nominations
Best Performance by an Actor
Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery

Best Host - Male
The Huron Carole

Best Musical or Variety
The Huron Carole