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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 17
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"Her Heritage Is Helpful": Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Politicization of LaDonna Harrris
Janda, Sarah Eppler
Great Plains Quarterly, v25 n4 p211-227 Fall 2005
This article chronicles LaDonna Harris's experiences with the media, the public, and government leaders as she rose from humble origins in the Great Plains to national prominence as a leading advocate of Native American rights in the latter half of the twentieth century. Harris helped to integrate Lawton, Oklahoma, in the early 1960s, founded Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity (OIO) in 1965, and established Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) in 1970.
Descriptors: Women Administrators, American Indians, Civil Rights, Advocacy, American Indian Education
Center for Great Plains Studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place, P.O. Box 880214, Lincoln, NE 68588-0214. Tel: 402-472-3082; Fax: 402-472-0463; e-mail: cgps@unl.edu; Web site: http://www.unl.edu/plains
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma
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