May 14, 2013
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A thousand people were asked in April if the Washington NFL franchise should change its name and (shocker) 79 percent said no. Suzan Shown Harjo
December 24, 2012
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Senator Daniel K. Suzan Shown Harjo
November 27, 2012
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When the seemingly endless election season finally ended, winners and losers had little time to celebrate their victories or lick their wounds before the campaigns morphed into contests to beat the self-imposed, fast-approaching budgetary deadlines... Suzan Shown Harjo
October 08, 2012
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"Our Visions” was a historic gathering of 100 Native writers, artists and wisdomkeepers at Taos Pueblo and sponsored by The Morning Star Institute and The 1992 Alliance. Suzan Shown Harjo
September 26, 2012
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The senatorial race in Massachusetts is too close to call—between incumbent Senator Scott Brown, Republican, and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, Democrat—and could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Suzan Shown Harjo
September 06, 2012
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Native Nations’ IDs are both evidence and exercise of sovereignty, and they should stand on their own as validators of tribal citizens’ rights to vote in tribal, federal or state elections and to travel and return home unimpeded. Suzan Shown Harjo
August 26, 2012
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The very privileged once marginalized people of color, anyone poor and most women by simply entering the boardroom, cigar den or private car. Suzan Shown Harjo
May 15, 2012
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What’s up, you ask, with the “Native American” uproar in the Elizabeth Warren-Scott Brown race for U.S. senator from Massachusetts? Suzan Shown Harjo
April 20, 2012
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White privilege in America first stood for wealth advantage, the provenance of white men, no matter how amassed, deserved, shared or inbred. Among its prominent symbols are oil baron J.D. Suzan Shown Harjo
March 13, 2012
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After waiting in vain for five years for its public schools to voluntarily eliminate Native race-based sports stereotypes, Oregon is on the verge of making it mandatory. Suzan Shown Harjo
February 15, 2012
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Amid the top-volume crossfire these days about whose religion and whose health could be threatened by federal actions, it’s noteworthy that debaters and bloviators alike don’t notice or don’t care about ongoing violations of Native American Peoples... Suzan Shown Harjo
January 24, 2012
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I learned about the banning of Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years from Dr. Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo), who blogs at American Indians in Children’s Literature. Suzan Shown Harjo