Birthday
1945/06/02 (79 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA
Also know as
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Suzan Shown Harjo (born June 2, 1945) (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is an advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. After co-producing the first American Indian news show in the nation for WBAI radio while living in New York City, and producing other shows and theater, in 1974 she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on national policy issues. S...Read more
(2021) Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
as Self - Interviewee