Brown University Library

Heather Cole, Head of Special Collections Instruction and Curator of Literary & Popular Culture Collections at the John Hay Library, speaks with Motif magazine about Joy Harjo's papers.

Harjo in Providence: A curated archive of the works of Indigenous poet Joy Harjo finds a home at Brown University - Motif EvErybody has a heartache —  This silence in the noise of the terminal is a mountain of bison skulls. Nobody knows, nobody sees —  Unless the indigenous are dancing powwow all decked out in flash and beauty We just don’t exist. We’ve been dispersed to an outlaw cowboy tale.