[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Language of Five Civilized Tribes
I think back then we just knew, you know, education was what it was. And i grew up in a, in my neighborhood, there's a lot of creeks, sh cherokees, seminoles and and non natives. So i grew up not knowing there were creek pot or other people wrote poetry besides wordsworth and newitman and an william blake. Yes, there's been a i came of age when i started writing poetry at the university in new mexico,. When ishmael read and others, where there was a growing consciousness of who is America?
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