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Joy Harjo
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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 th…
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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.
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2025
Highway 99: A Double Album
Movie Self
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2024
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
TV show Self - 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
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2023
Anthem
Movie Self
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2022
Cara Romero: Following the Light
Movie Herself
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2021
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2020
Love and Fury
Movie Herself
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2019
Words from a Bear
Movie Self
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2016
Medicine Woman
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2011
Games of the North
Movie Narrator
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2005
A Thousand Roads
Movie Screenplay
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1996
Pepper's Pow Wow
Movie Self
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1994
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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1982
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Movie Narrative Poetry
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Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues
Movie Self
