SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The Institute of American Indian Arts has acquired the archives and art collection of longtime Native American historian and advocate Suzan Harjo.
The institute made the announcement Wednesday, noting that Harjo recently decided to make the donation following decades of advocacy for Native arts and culture.
Harjo will be 72 on Friday. She says the institute was the appropriate place for her records and that the donation reflects her long-term relationship with the Santa Fe-based institution.
The Harjo papers stretch back to 1965 and relate to everything from the passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation to a lawsuit over a professional football team’s trademarks and her time at the National Congress of the American Indian.
The art collection includes pieces by Kelly Church, Leonard Peltier, Roxanne Swentzell, Tony Tiger and others.
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