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Lit Mag Changes Exploitative Name

After more than sixty years in circulation, the literary journal Crazyhorse is poised to change its name to swamp pink, after a lily species that grows in the Carolinas. The Fall 2022 issue of the journal, published by the College of Charleston in South Carolina, will be the last under a name that the journal’s editors now recognize as a “longstanding appropriation of Lakota culture.”

Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne/Muscogee writer and activist who has worked for decades

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