American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects An Echohawk, An Echo-Hawk, Tiya Miles, Wes Studi, Stephanie Fryberg, and a Fletcher

Fun stuff.

Here’s my acceptance letter:

Hungry baby eating 1930s era Interior Department propaganda.

Not as cool as Joy Harjo’s letter from a few years back:

Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate

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Now Harjo has a chance to offer that medicine to the whole nation. Today she was appointed 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. As a member of the Muscogee Nation, she will be the first Native American to serve in that honorary position when she begins this fall.

Joy Harjo Visit to the Stanford Native American Cultural Center

Wednesday, I was delighted to attend a reception for Joy Harjo (who read later on before a bigger audience).