Savageau was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993, and from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program 1990.
Her children's book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming, was a Smithsonian Notable Book (1996), won the Skipping Stones Award for children's Environmental Books (1997), and the Best Children's Book Award (1997), from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.