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joy harjo is a
powerful force
of nature.
harjo is a
member of
the mvskoke
(muscogeey
creek nation
of oklahoma
harjo has been
given the task
of increasing
people's
appreciation of
poetry
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joy harjo's amazing artistic talent is clear from her work as a musician, including her
a musical group, the arrow dynamics band, which has performed concerts around the
world.
joy harjo, whose work describes the joys and hardships of native american life, is an
award-winning poet, musician, and teacher who recently became the 23rd u. s. poet
laureate.
joy harjo writes about brave native americans of the past, such as monahwee, who led
the red stick warriors against andrew jackson in 1814 in an attempt to keep their
ancestral lands.
joy harjo's development as an artist began early on, during her childhood in tulsa,
oklahoma, where she lived in a household run by a controlling stepfather.