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THPO TalkSuzan Shown Harjo: Session 2Send us a textSession 2 with Suzan Shown Harjo, brings a living voice to the vocabulary used in NAGPRA and Repatriation, but it didn’t come easy. Join THPO Talk Host Sheila Bird as she welcomes Co-Host RaeLynn Butler and brand new respondent, Chase Ward into the discussion. Visit us on our Facebook page. 2025-04-231h 35THPO TalkSuzan Shown Harjo: In the BeginningSend us a textSuzan Shown Harjo has led a lifetime of advocacy for Indigenous Rights. Her contribution would change the face of NAGPRA and other significant movements in Indian Country. Join THPO Talk as we begin this holistic series and take this walk with us as we journey through this epic series with Suzan. Visit us on our Facebook page. 2025-04-111h 14
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThe Spirit of Jim ThorpeJim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known — a legend in the NFL, MLB, NCAA, and in the Olympics. Today he is being celebrated by a new generation of Native Americans.
Rapper Tall Paul’s album is called, “The Story of Jim Thorpe." Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota.
Biographer David Maraniss is the author of "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."
Activist Suzan Shown Harjo is the recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is Cheyenne and Hodulgee...2025-02-0851 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThe Spirit of Jim ThorpeJim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known — a legend in the NFL, MLB, NCAA, and in the Olympics. Today he is being celebrated by a new generation of Native Americans.
Rapper Tall Paul’s album is called, “The Story of Jim Thorpe." Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota.
Biographer David Maraniss is the author of "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."
Activist Suzan Shown Harjo is the recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is Cheyenne and Hodulgee...2024-06-2251 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThe Spirit of Jim ThorpeJim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known — a legend in the NFL, MLB, NCAA, and in the Olympics. Today he is being celebrated by a new generation of Native Americans.
Rapper Tall Paul’s album is called, “The Story of Jim Thorpe." Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota.
Biographer David Maraniss is the author of "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."
Activist Suzan Shown Harjo is the recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom...2023-10-1451 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThe Spirit of Jim ThorpeJim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known — a legend in the NFL, MLB, NCAA, and in the Olympics. Today he is being celebrated by a new generation of Native Americans.
Rapper Tall Paul’s album is called, “The Story of Jim Thorpe." Tall Paul is an Anishinaabe and Oneida Hip-Hop artist enrolled on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota.
Biographer David Maraniss is the author of "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."
Activist Suzan Shown Harjo is the recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. S...2023-01-1451 min
Broads You Should KnowReBROADcast: Suzan Harjo — Native American Activist Known For Repatriation & Anti-Racism Lawsuits Against USA [with Chloe Skye]Continuing our revisit of some of our previously-aired Indigenous American Broads, today we bring back Chloe Skye's episode on one of the most prominent warriors in the fight to take down racially harmful mascots - Suzan Shown Harjo!
In high school, Suzan learned about 3,000 racist sports mascots across the US, and a few years later, she started a foundation dedicated to eradicating those mascots. She was the primary plantiff on the lawsuit to change the name of the Washington R*dsk*ns (back in 1992!).
When she went to a museum with her mother and discovered...2022-11-1634 min
Harvard Divinity SchoolThe Impact of God is Red on Native American Rights and Native American ReligionThis lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) from the the Morning Star Institute discusses the impact of Deloria's work on studies of Native American rights and Native American Religions.
This event took place on Thursday, October 6, 2022
Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/public-events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D162305702
Full transcript: https...2022-10-271h 43
David Maraniss, Ink in Our BloodSuzan Shown Harjo (Part 2 of 2)David continues the discussion with Suzan Shown Harjo, (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and renowned 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 of tribal lands and fight against the use of racist mascots.
"Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe" is available at bookstores or online at:
https://davidmaraniss.com/library/path-lit-by-lightning-the-life-of-jim-thorpe/2022-09-2556 minDavid Maraniss, Ink in Our BloodSuzan Shown Harjo (Part 1 of 2)David talks with Suzan Shown Harjo, (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and renowned 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 of tribal lands and fight against the use of racist mascots.
"Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe" is available at bookstores or online at:
https://davidmaraniss.com/library/path-lit-by-lightning-the-life-of-jim-thorpe/2022-09-181h 12
Indigenae PodcastRestoring protection for our community: MMIWG2S and the Law with Mary Kathryn NagleMary Kathryn Nagle (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) answers questions about the legal framework around the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit. She explains how a 1978 Supreme Court decision failed to protect Native people from violence perpetrated by non-Natives, and what has happened since to restore Tribes’ rights to prosecute crimes committed on tribal land. Mary Kathryn joined Pipestem & Nagle, P.C. in 2015 from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York City, where she specialized in complex commercial litigation related to structured finance, bankruptcy, and federal qui tam actions. She has dra...2021-11-3031 min
Good For Now...No More Native MascotsSuzan Shown Harjo is a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Suzan and 6 co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in 1992 against Pro Football, Inc. as an important step to cancel 6 trademark registrations the Washington football team used to profit from the use of their racist name and logo.
I had the honor of speaking remotely with Suzan, and her son Duke Harjo, about the Washington organization’s decision to change their name and logo. We talked about the details of the 1992 case, what it was like for Duke growing up in DC hearing the R-word everyday, and Suzan’s th...2020-08-032h 03
OnStage Colorado podcastRoundup: Colorado New Play Summit 2020In this episode of the OnStage Colorado podcast, host Alex Miller catches up with four of the playwrights who had readings of their work at the Denver Center Theatre Company's annual Colorado New Play Summit. Interview subjects include Jessica Kahkoska, whose comedic and mystical play In Her Bones is set in Southern Colorado; Alma by Benjamin Benne, which focuses on the perils of being an undocumented immigrant in the Trump era; Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi, a comedic drama about two couples in a pressure-cooker situation in Egypt; and Reclaiming One Star by Suzan Shown...2020-02-2527 min
OnStage Colorado podcastRoundup: Colorado New Play Summit 2020In this episode of the OnStage Colorado podcast, host Alex Miller catches up with four of the playwrights who had readings of their work at the Denver Center Theatre Company's annual Colorado New Play Summit. Interview subjects include Jessica Kahkoska, whose comedic and mystical play In Her Bones is set in Southern Colorado; Alma by Benjamin Benne, which focuses on the perils of being an undocumented immigrant in the Trump era; Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi, a comedic drama about two couples in a pressure-cooker situation in Egypt; and Reclaiming One Star by Suzan Shown...2020-02-2500 min
All the Books!E221: New Releases and More for August 13, 2019This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss gods with a little g, The Memory Police, The Yellow House, and more great books.
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gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyd...2019-08-1333 min
International mediaInternational media - Native American journalists break free of mainstream mediaIs a new era for Native American media in the United States opening up? Three Native American journalists talk about challenging stereotypes and bringing a nuanced voice to indigenous issues. They belong to a generation that believes in making things happen, despite all the odds, and not waiting for mainstream media to catch on.
Native Americans once owned the land in the United States, it was theirs before the white settlers arrived. They are the First People, whom archaeologists believe have been on the North American continent for some 50,000 years.
Today they represent less than one percent of the United...2017-10-3020 min
Making ContactLooking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in ReviewIn today’s news cycle it’s challenging keeping up with the latest developments around the world. In 2014 we saw pro-democracy protests spanning 75 days in Hong Kong to the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Often we just get the stories when they first break, then once the height of a conflict diminishes or really when another issue surfaces to the top of the news cycle, that’s it. After that we don’t hear much more about the issue. Even though we know that the issues remain.
On today’s show we’re going to bring you...2014-12-2429 min
KPFA - Making ContactMaking Contact – Insult to Injury? American Indian Sports MascotsThey may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their performance on the field, but rather their refusal to change the name of their team.From FedEx Field to High School Football teams, pressure is increasing on teams to stop using American Indian names and mascots. The battle is playing out in stadiums, court rooms, and in the media. And some of America’s best known sports brands may be forced to change.
Featuring:
Gregg Deal, member of Pyramid...2014-01-3104 min
Braune Märchen by UNGERN-STERNBERG, Alexander vonThe Desecration of Hickory GroundGuests are Hickory Ground Warrior Wayland Gray, Suzan Shown Harjo of Morning Star Institute, Rob Trepp of Tulsa Indian Art Festival. The Poarch Band Creek of Indians desecrated a sacred site. The Poarch Band has a $246 million casino expansion project underway and dug up almost 60 sets of Muscogee ancestors during the ground preparation. Gray and two other Muscogee Nation citizens and a Cherokee Nation AIM member were arrested last February by Poarch police and charged with criminal trespassing when they tried to access the site to conduct a ceremony. Gray was also accused by Poarch police with making a “terrorist threat...2013-12-021h 05
The Desecration of Hickory GroundGuests are Hickory Ground Warrior Wayland Gray, Suzan Shown Harjo of Morning Star Institute, Rob Trepp of Tulsa Indian Art Festival. The Poarch Band Creek of Indians desecrated a sacred site. The Poarch Band has a $246 million casino expansion project underway and dug up almost 60 sets of Muscogee ancestors during the ground preparation. Gray and two other Muscogee Nation citizens and a Cherokee Nation AIM member were arrested last February by Poarch police and charged with criminal trespassing when they tried to access the site to conduct a ceremony. Gray was also accused by Poarch police with making a “terrorist threat...2013-12-021h 06
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee)Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land, including many sacred places. She has developed key laws in four decades to promote and protect Native nations, sovereignty, children, arts, cultures and languages. Former Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians, she was Legislative Liaison for two law firms and served on the Native American Policy Committee for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and as an Advisor to the Transition in 2008-2009.
Ms. Harjo is President of The...2011-05-071h 05KPFA - Bay Native CircleBay Native Circle – July 13, 2005BNC opens with a song from Ras K’Dee’s Street Prison CD followed by American Indian Contemporary Arts’ Bay Area Indian Calendar. Host Antoine talks with noted poet, writer, curator and policy advocate Suzan Shown Harjo about the Mascot issue and the lawsuit Harjo et. al v. Pro Football, Inc. against the Washington Redskins. The show is completed with call-ins to discuss the mascot issue with Harjo. The post Bay Native Circle – July 13, 2005 appeared first on KPFA. 2005-07-1308 min