Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

Joy Har­jo, the 23rd Poet Lau­re­ate of the U.S., is a mem­ber of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hick­o­ry Ground). She is only the second poet to be appoint­ed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tul­sa, Okla­homa, she left home to attend high school at the inno­v­a­tive Insti­tute of Amer­i­can Indi­an Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indi­an Affairs school. Har­jo began writ­ing poet­ry as a mem­ber of the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mexico’s Native stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empow­er­ment move­ments. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop and teach Eng­lish, Cre­ative Writ­ing, and Amer­i­can Indi­an Stud­ies at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­­for­­nia-Los Ange­les, Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona, Ari­zona State, Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois, Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hawai’i, Insti­tute of Amer­i­can Indi­an Arts, and Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee, while per­form­ing music and poet­ry nation­al­ly and internationally.

  • Title: Joy Harjo
  • Popularity: 0.092
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1951-05-09
  • Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
  • Homepage: https://www.joyharjo.com
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Joy Harjo Movies

  • 2022
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    Cara Romero: Following the Light

    Cara Romero: Following the Light

    6 2022 HD

    Cara Romero's contemporary fine art photography captures Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences...

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  • 2021
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    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

    Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

    1 2021 HD

    Examining the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond.

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  • 1982
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    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    1 1982 HD

    Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Shoshone French Cree painter, discusses her abstract paintings, which depict her Indian heritage with scenes of early...

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  • 1970
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    Pepper's Pow Wow

    Pepper's Pow Wow

    1 1970 HD

    A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz.

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  • 2019
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    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear

    1 2019 HD

    A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native...

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  • 2016
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    Medicine Woman

    Medicine Woman

    1 2016 HD

    America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared. She graduated first in her class...

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  • 2011
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    Games of the North

    Games of the North

    1 2011 HD

    For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for survival within the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral...

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  • 2020
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    Love and Fury

    Love and Fury

    8 2020 HD

    Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense...

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  • 2005
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    A Thousand Roads

    A Thousand Roads

    7 2005 HD

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  • 1982
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    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    1 1982 HD

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