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Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land and numerous sacred places.

5/18/2015
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Athletics & Recreation, Lectures & Seminars

A 2014 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Ms. Harjo has helped develop key federal Indian law since 1975, including the most important national policy advances in the modern era for the protection of Native American cultures and arts, including the 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act, and the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

 

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Sheila Laplante
sheila.c.laplante@dartmouth.edu
603-646-3530
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