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Suzan Shown Harjo

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81

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.

Suzan Shown Harjo is read about 15 times a day, in 8 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 29 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom2014

About this person

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.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81