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2019-09-25T19:52:00.000Z
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Video Title:
A Promise Kept: 4 – Dr. Michael D. McNally
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Influential policy advocate, writer, curator, and 2014 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is recognized for a lifetime of achievement in this symposium, “A Promise Kept: The Inspiring Life and Works of Suzan Shown Harjo.” A founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, Harjo’s legacy of activism and artistic accomplishment continues to inspire Native Nations and people and influence U.S. policies about Native sovereignty and cultures. Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee,activisim,Smithsonian,webcast,Muscogee Creek,life achievement,symposium Michael D. McNally is John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religion at Carleton College. He is author of Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Culture in Motion (2000), Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion (2009), and Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment (forthcoming from Princeton Univ. Press, 2020). Research for the latter book, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, turned significantly on oral history interviews conducted with Suzan Shown Harjo. The symposium was webcast and recorded in the National Museum of the American Indian Rasmuson Theater on September 20, 2019.
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29 min 4 sec
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