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Harjo Thijs
Harjo is a surname, derived from the Muscogee war title ''Hadcho'' or ''Hadjo'', meaning "so brave as to seem crazy", "brave beyond discretion", "foolhardy", or "fearless person". Notable people with the name include: * Albert Harjo (1937–2019), Muscogee artist * Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (born 1945), Absentee Shawnee/Seminole painter and printmaker * Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake, 1846–1911), Muscogee warrior and activist * Edmond Harjo (1917–2014), American Seminole Code Talker during World War II * Joy Harjo (born 1951), Muscogee/Cherokee poet, musician, author, and U.S. Poet Laureate * Osvald Harjo (1910–1993), Norwegian resistance member * Sharron Ahtone Harjo (born 1945), Kiowa painter * Sterlin Harjo (born 1979), Seminole/Muscogee filmmaker and comedian * Suzan Shown Harjo (born 1945), Muscogee/Cheyenne activist and policymaker As middle name * Lois Harjo Ball (1906–1982), was a Muscogee painter * William Harjo LoneFight (born 1966), is president and CEO of American N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscogee Language
The Muscogee language (also Muskogee , ), previously referred to by its exonym, Creek, is spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida. Muscogee was historically spoken by various constituent groups of the Muscogee confederacy in what are now Alabama and Georgia. In the early 18th century some Muscogee speakers began to join speakers of Hitchiti-Mikasuki in Florida. Combining with other ethnicities there, they emerged as the Seminole. During the 1830s, the US government forced most Muscogee and Seminole to relocate west of the Mississippi River, with most forced into Indian Territory. Muscogee is today spoken by fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in Oklahoma and are members of the Muscogee Nation and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Powell, Amy; Martin, Jack (May 17, 2024). "The Muscogee Language Documentation Project". William & Mary Some speakers of Muscogee are also members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzan Shown Harjo
Suzan Shown Harjo (born June 2, 1945) (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is an American advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. After co-producing the first American Indian news show in the nation for WBAI radio while living in New York City, and producing other shows and theater, in 1974 she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on national policy issues. She served as Congressional liaison for Indian affairs in the President Jimmy Carter administration and later as president of the National Council of American Indians. Harjo is president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Native American rights organization. Since the 1960s, she has worked on getting sports teams to drop names that promote negative stereotypes of Native Americans. In June 2014, the Patent and Trademark Office revoked the Washington Redskins trademark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder
Tahnee Ahtone is a Kiowa beadwork artist, regalia maker, curator, and museum professional of Muscogee and Seminole descent, from Mountain View, Oklahoma. She is a curator of Native American art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City since 2024. Background Tahnee Marie Ahtone Harjo, and she is the daughter of Amos Harjo (Seminole, Muscogee) and Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), a painter, ledger artist, and educator. She is an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. Her maternal grandparents were Evelyn Tahome and Jacob Ahtone, who served as Kiowa tribal chairman from 1978 to 1980, and as a United States Department of Interior administrator who contributed to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and the Indian Arts and Craft Act of 1990. Tahnee is named after her great-aunt who died as a child, Ah-stom-pah Ote, which translates to "The One Chosen to Lead In." She is the great-granddaughter of famed lattice cradleboard artists Kiowa captive Millie Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harjo, Oklahoma
Harjo is an unincorporated community in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established June 24, 1921, and discontinued August 31, 1954. The name means "brave beyond discretion" in the Creek (Muscogee) language. Nearby is the Rose-Fast site, a prehistoric Indian base camp dating from the Woodland period, 0-1000 AD. The site was added to the NRHP The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ... in 1986. Unincorporated communities in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadjo
''Hadjo'' or ''Hadcho'' was a Muscogee war title which may be translated as "fearless person", "so brave as to seem crazy", "brave beyond discretion", or "foolhardy". Most Seminole leaders from the period of the Seminole Wars are known by their war titles, which were always Muscogee in form, no matter what their primary language was.The following ''hadjos'' are known from the first half of the 19th century in Florida, primarily from the Seminole Wars: *Apayaka Hadjo, more commonly known as Abiaka * Chitto Hadjo, raided northeast Florida in 1842 *Coa Hadjo, arrested under a white flag together with Osceola * Fuse Hadjo, represented Billy Bowlegs in negotiations with the US Army * Hallek Hadjo, captured after Battle of Loxahatchee *Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo) * Ya-ha Hadjo See also * Harjo, a Muscogee surname derived from "hadjo" *Tustenuggee ''Tustenuggee'' ( in Muscogee) was a Muscogee title for the war leader of a tribal town. The ''tustenuggee'' was appointed by the ''micco' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harjo LoneFight
William Harjo LoneFight (born 1966), is president and CEO of American Native Services, a consulting firm in Bismarck, North Dakota. An alumnus of Dartmouth College, Oklahoma City University, and Stanford University, LoneFight has served on the board of directors of the American Indian College Fund, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and The Jacobson Foundation. An enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma with Natchez ancestry,"Gift Will Help Complete Sisseton Voc-ed Building." ''Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.'' Winter 2003 (retrieved 22 March 2010) Harjo was raised in a traditional Muscogee (Creek) Indian com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Harjo Ball
Lois Harjo Ball (1906–1982) was a Native American painter, basket maker, and ceramic artist from Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and a citizen of the Muscogee Nation. Early life Ball was the daughter of Henry Marsey Harjo and Katie Monahwee. She was a granddaughter of Muscogee chief Menawa. Ball graduated from Okmulgee High School in 1926 and Art career Ball painted for her entire adult life. She supported native art and encouraged others to learn about their heritage. She studied at Oklahoma City University and Stephens College and is known for her paintings. Her works are in the collections of institutions including the Creek Council House and Museum in Okmulgee. Legacy In particular, Ball was a strong influence on her grand-niece Joy Harjo, who was later a United States Poet Laureate The poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States poet laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo (born November 14, 1979)Sam Lewin, , ''Native Times News'', reprinted in ''Canku Ota'', May 24, 2004 (article gives his age as 24 in 2004). is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American filmmaker from Oklahoma. He is a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and a Muscogee descendant. He has directed three feature films, a documentary, and the FX (TV channel), FX comedy drama series ''Reservation Dogs'', all of them set in his home state of Oklahoma and concerned primarily with Native American people and content. Early life and education Harjo, a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma who also has Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Muscogee heritage, was born and raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he studied art and film. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Harjo
Albert Lee Harjo (1937 – 2019), born in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Hanna, Oklahoma, was a fullblood Muscogee artist."Albert Harjo." ''Dakota Southwest Traders''. (retrieved 8 April 2009) Education Harjo was born on September 25, 1937, in , on the Muscogee Indian Reservation. He attended Jones Academy in , then later |
Sharron Ahtone Harjo
Marcelle Sharron Ahtone Harjo (born 1945) is a Kiowa painter from Oklahoma. Her Kiowa name, Sain-Tah-Oodie, translates to "Killed With a Blunted Arrow." In the 1960s and 1970s, she and sister Virginia Stroud were instrumental in the revival of ledger art, a Plains Indian narrative pictorial style on paper or muslin.Pearce 13 Background Sharron Ahtone Harjo's parents were Evelyn Tahome and Jacob Ahtone. Evelyn's parents were A. Jane Goombi and Stephen "Tahome" Poolant. Jacob served as Kiowa Tribal chairman from 1978 to 1980. Jacob's parents were Tahdo (Tah'ga-da) and Samuel Ahtone. Samuel attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Samuel was a ledger artist. Her great-grandmother, Millie Durgan, was taken captive by the Kiowas as a young girl. Durgan acculturated into Kiowa society and became a renowned cradleboard-maker. In 1963, Ahtone Harjo graduated from Billings West High School in Billings, Montana. She stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osvald Harjo
Osvald Harjo (30 September 1910 – 20 April 1993) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II, and a prisoner in Soviet Gulag camps for more than a decade. After being arrested and tortured by the Gestapo in 1942, he managed to escape from custody and fled into the Soviet Union. Here, he was accused of being a German spy, and convicted to 15 years forced labour. He was released in 1955, after pressure from the Norwegian Prime Minister during a visit in Moscow. Paul Engstad Paul Øistein Engstad (13 October 1926 – 13 May 2012) was a Norwegian writer and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Sauda. He was a journalist in the Labour-aligned newspaper ''Arbeiderbladet'', and held several positions in the La ... wrote Harjo's memoir book ' () in 1956. Harjo was of Finnish descent. References 1910 births 1993 deaths People from Sør-Varanger Norwegian resistance members Norwegian torture victims Norwegian escapees Escapees from German detenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
