# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suzan-shown-harjo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:56:53.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suzan-shown-harjo"
name: "Suzan Shown Harjo"
slug: "suzan-shown-harjo"
description: "Suzan Shown Harjo is an American 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. She served as Congressional liaison for Indian affairs in the President Jimmy Carter administration and later as president of the National Council of American Indians."
tagline: "Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Suzan_shown_harjo_09.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.816488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سوزن شون ہارجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "سوزان شون هارجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سوزان شون هارچو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://chy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan_Shown_Harjo"
    title: "Suzan Shown Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan_Shown_Harjo"
    title: "Suzan Shown Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan_Shown_Harjo"
    title: "Suzan Shown Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7"
    title: "スーザン・ショーン・ハルジョ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan_Shown_Harjo"
    title: "Suzan Shown Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7650685"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump