Benjamin Harjo Jr.
Native American painter and printmaker from Oklahoma (1945–2023), citizen of the Absentee Shawnee, descendant of Seminole Nation, from Oklahoma
Benjamin Harjo Jr. (born September 14, 1945 – May 20, 2023) was a Native American painter and printmaker based in Oklahoma.
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Benjamin Harjo Jr. was an enrolled citizen of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a descended of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. His ancestry was half-Seminole and half-Shawnee. Harjo's father was the late Benjamin Harjo Sr., a full-blood Seminole. Harjo's mother, Viola Harjo, was from Byng, Oklahoma. Her father was William F. Harjo, who graduated from Chilocco Indian School in 1939. His maternal grandparents were Emmett and Ruth Wood.
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