Suzan Shown Harjo: Who's Still Struggling with Human Rights in 2008 and Why? (2008)

Authors

Suzan Shown Harjo

Files

Description

This lecture was presented as a part of the Dialogue on Diversity Committee of Rhode Island College Spring Lecture series. Suzan Shown 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. She has developed 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.

Document Type

Spring Lecture

Organization

Dialogue on Diversity Committee

Series

Dialogue on Diversity Spring Lecture

Citation

Harjo, Suzan Shown, "Suzan Shown Harjo: Who's Still Struggling with Human Rights in 2008 and Why? (2008)" (2008). Rhode Island College Audio Video collection. 6.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/av_root/6

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.