King is one of the biggest names in Native studies and Native lit. From Wikipedia:
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Books
Medicine River (Viking Canada, 1990), novel
A Coyote Columbus Story (Douglas & McIntyre, 1992),– Governor General's Award finalist
Green Grass, Running Water (Houghton Mifflin, 1993), – Governor General's Award finalist
One Good Story, That One (1993), stories Borders (1993) Coyote Sings to the Moon (1998)
Truth and Bright Water (HarperFlamingo Canada, 1999)
The Truth About Stories (House of Anansi Press, 2003); US edition (U. of Minnesota Press, 2005) – Massey Lectures
Coyote's New Suit (2004)
A Short History of Indians in Canada (HarperCollins, 2005), stories – McNally Robinson Award winner
A Coyote Solstice Tale (Groundwood Books, 2009)
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Doubleday Canada, 2012)
The Back of the Turtle (Doubleday, 2014) – Governor General's Award winner
77 Fragments of Familiar Ruin (2019) - Poems Indians on Vacation (2020) Sufferance (2021)
Aliens on the Moon (2025)
DreadfulWater Mysteries: Dreadful Water Shows Up (2002), The Red Power Murders (2006), Cold Skies (2018), A Matter of Malice (2019), Obsidian (2020), Deep House (2022), Double Eagle (2023), Black Ice (2024)
As editor
The Native in Literature (1987)
An Anthology of Short Fiction by Native Writers in Canada (1988)
All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990)
Scripts
Four Directions (CBC Television, 1996), drama anthology series, as editor and sometime writer
The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour (CBC Radio, 1997 to 2000) and its sequels (2002 and 2006)
I'm Not The Indian You Had In Mind, 2007, short film also directed by King
Awards and recognition
Literary awards
Nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1992 for A Coyote Columbus Story.
Nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1993 for Green Grass, Running Water.
Won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2021 for Indians on Vacation
Green Grass, Running Water was chosen for the inclusion in the 2004 edition of Canada Reads, and championed by then-Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray. In the 2015 edition of Canada Reads, his non-fiction book The Inconvenient Indian was defended by activist Craig Kielburger.
A Short History of Indians in Canada won the 2006 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.
The Inconvenient Indian won the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize,[14] and was a finalist for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature.
The Back of the Turtle won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at 2014 Governor General's Awards
Indians on Vacation was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.
Honors
In 2004, King was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
In November 2020, King was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.[22] The naming was because of King's "enduring contributions to preservation and recognition of indigenous culture, as one of North America’s most acclaimed literary figures.
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I really wonder why TAAF investigated him. 83 and retired for 5 years, no sign of willful fraud at all, a long history of accomplishment and doing good.
Basically he was told a false story of who his grandfather was. Grew up outside the culture but definitely learned it and became a leading advocate and activist, including several runs for Canadian parliament.
No ceremony selling or abuse. No spreading falsehoods or stereotypes like imposters such as "Jamake Highwater." No sign of deception by him, or by anyone involved except his grandmother. No gatekeeping to keep actual Natives out as we've seen with many imposters.
In fact when King found out, he was the one most hurt. I'm reminded of when Carlos Montezuma discovered he was Yavapai when he believed he was Apache his whole life. King says he'll give back one award intended for Natives only. But the others no. They were awarded for merit. And King, like nearly all Natives in academia, was hired based on ability. No such thing as "Native professor positions."
