 Mauldin won more than 100 awards in the course of her career from the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, the Heard Museum, the Philbrook Museum, the Heritage Center of the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota and the Santa Fe Indian Market, among others.She was designated as a "Master Artist" by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma, shortly before her death.Mauldin died from a brain tumor on October 27, 1997 in Tulsa and was buried at Ridgelawn Cemetery, in Collinsville, Oklahoma on October 31.