Joy Harjo

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Highway 99: A Double Album TrailerAnthem TrailerCara Romero: Following the Light Trailer

Joy Har­jo, the 23rd Poet Lau­re­ate of the U.S., is a mem­ber of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hick­o­ry Ground). She is only the second poet to be appoint­ed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Tul­sa, Okla­homa, she left home to attend high school at the inno­v­a­tive Insti­tute of Amer­i­can Indi­an Arts, which was then a Bureau of Indi­an Affairs school. Har­jo began writ­ing poet­ry as a mem­ber of the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mexico’s Native stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion, the Kiva Club, in response to Native empow­er­ment move­ments. She went on to earn her MFA at the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop and teach Eng­lish, Cre­ative Writ­ing, and Amer­i­can Indi­an Stud­ies at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­­for­­nia-Los Ange­les, Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona, Ari­zona State, Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois, Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hawai’i, Insti­tute of Amer­i­can Indi­an Arts, and Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee, while per­form­ing music and poet­ry nation­al­ly and internationally.

Most Popular Joy Harjo Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting Trailer (2021)

14 January 2021

Examining the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond.

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Shoshone French Cree painter, discusses her abstract paintings, which depict her Indian heritage with scenes of early plains lifestyles.

A Thousand Roads Trailer (2005)

23 January 2005

The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child.

Cara Romero: Following the Light Trailer (2022)

16 October 2022

Cara Romero's contemporary fine art photography captures Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from an Indigenous female perspective.

Love and Fury Trailer (2020)

12 June 2020

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad.

Medicine Woman Trailer (2016)

12 August 2016

America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) studied medicine at a time when few women dared.

Anthem Trailer (2023)

11 June 2023

What would it sound like if the national anthem was written today? Anthem follows composer Kris Bowers and producer Dahi on a musical road trip across the country to reflect on “The Star-Spangled Banner” to find out.

Games of the North Trailer (2011)

18 April 2011

For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for survival within the unforgiving Arctic.

Highway 99: A Double Album Trailer (2025)

29 August 2025

HIGHWAY 99: A DOUBLE ALBUM is a musical travelogue that chronicles the epic, American story of one of our greatest musical voices, Merle Haggard.

The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest Trailer (1994)

10 October 1994

A meeting of the Far West Council elders inspires a discussion of Northwest Native American history y

Pepper's Pow Wow Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz.

Words from a Bear Trailer (2019)

29 January 2019

A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.