Joy Harjo

Writing

Joy Harjo

Born

1951-05-09 (75)

Place of birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Known for

Writing

Credits

14 titles

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 Uni­…

Known for

Anthem poster
5.4

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.

Anthem

2023

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae poster
8.7

This true crime docuseries examines the murder of Annie Mae Aquash – a Mi'kmaq woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, a mother of two daughters, a teacher, and a revolutionary who fought for Indigenous rights in the 1970s whose death went unsolved for almost 30 years.

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

2024

Words from a Bear poster
NR

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.

Words from a Bear

2019

Games of the North poster
NR

For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for survival within the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral games evolved to strengthen mind, body and spirit within the community. Following four modern Inuit athletes reveals their unique relationship to the games as they compete across the North. As unprecedented change sweeps across their traditional lands, their stories illuminate the importance of the games today.

Games of the North

2011

Highway 99: A Double Album poster
NR

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

Highway 99: A Double Album

2025

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting poster
8.0

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

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

2021

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera