Joy Harjo

Person · Open Library

Works

54

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1951-05-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,953

Total plays

13,790

Joy Harjo (b. Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joy+Harjo">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Elements of Information Theory

   · 2001 · cited 16,878x

2. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

   · 2018 · cited 9,661x

3. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,580x

4. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

   · 2015 · cited 4,854x

5. The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

   · 2013 · cited 4,637x

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Quotes

• “We are story gatherers. That's what we humans do.”
• “I think it’s easier to honor the male in our culture because it’s much more accepted. There are almost no truly powerful and sustained images of female power. None. Look at Marilyn Monroe? The Virgin Mary? And what images exist for Indian women? The big question is, How do we describe ourselves as women in this culture? It’s unclear.”
• “A lot of images [of Native Americans] are based on fairy tales or Wild West shows. We are human beings, not just people who have been created for people’s fantasy worlds. There’s not just one Native American. We’re diverse by community, by land, by language, by culture. In fact, we go by our tribal names, and there are 573 tribal nations.”
• “Each of us is descended from poetry ancestors. It’s the same for any art, any occupation. There is a lineage of style, knowledge and culture passed from generation to generation, one artist to another. Ultimately all poetry is related in the family tree of poetry…”
• “We're all putting energy out whatever we're doing... we're in a constant stream of energy, and we're either singing or making noise. (2009)”
• “Earth is larger than humans in size and consciousness. We're guests on this earth. Humans are just part of a larger creation. If it so happens we were given dominion, or males were-and I don't believe this at all and it's one reason I walked away from the church at thirteen-then we certainly won't have it next time around. We've done nothing but rape the earth of its resources and don't even turn around. We forget to say thank you. (2005)”

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