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Audio Recording Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings on August 14, 2020. Welcoming Home Living Beings

Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings
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Title

  • Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings on August 14, 2020.

Other Title

  • Welcoming Home Living Beings

Summary

  • Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses her poem "Welcoming Home Living Beings" on August 14, 2020, from her home in Washington, D.C. Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is a writer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Indigenous Peoples protect sacred places and recover over one million acres of lands. In awarding her a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Barack Obama said Suzan has "fought all her life for human, civil, and treaty rights." A founder of the National Museum of the American Indian and leader of successful campaigns against the offensive name of the Washington NFL team, she was the first Native woman Montgomery Fellow; received unprecedented back-to-back residency fellowships in poetry and as a summer scholar at the School of Advanced Research; and was elected in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Names

  • Harjo, Suzan Shown, author, speaker.
  • Library of Congress. Poetry and Literature Center, sponsor.

Created / Published

  • 2020.

Headings

  • -  American poetry--Indian authors
  • -  American poetry--21st century
  • -  Indians of North America--Poetry

Genre

  • Poetry
  • Poetry readings (Sound recordings)
  • Sound recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry (AFC 2020/004: 44) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  In English.

Medium

  • 1 audio file (0:14:29) : digital, wav
  • 1 photograph : digital, jpg, color
  • 2 manuscripts (6 pages) : digital, pdf

Source Collection

  • Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry AFC 2020/004

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020785244

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  • Suzan Shown Harjo, "Welcoming Home Living Beings." Copyright © by Suzan Shown Harjo. Photo courtesy of photographer Lucy Fowler Williams, Penn Museum.

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Credit line: Living Nations, Living Words (AFC 2020/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Harjo, Suzan Shown, Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings on. 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785244/.

APA citation style:

Harjo, S. S. & Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center, S. (2020) Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings on. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785244/.

MLA citation style:

Harjo, Suzan Shown, Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Suzan Shown Harjo reads and discusses Welcoming Home Living Beings on. 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020785244/>.