Myaamia Center Receives $40,000 Grant from Henry Luce Foundation
The Myaamia Center has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the Akimaansa: Myaamia Young Ambassador Internship.
Myaamia Center News
Headline Highlights: Miami and Miamians in the news in March
Our editors' picks provide a snapshot of recent news media coverage
Authors, Accolades, and Achievements
Award-winning investigative journalist inspires students to explore new forms of journalism
Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winner Connie Walker spoke about her experiences covering Indigenous communities in Canada
The institute, based in the Myaamia Center, supports Indigenous communities interested in using archival documentation to revitalize their languages
Myaamia Center receives $2.1 million from Mellon Foundation
The Myaamia Center has been awarded a $2,100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the work of its National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages.
Paris research trip reconnects Native American tribes with historic painted robes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor Robert Morrissey and members of the Miami and Peoria Nations traveled to a Paris museum to reconnect the tribes with 300-year-old ceremonia...
For communities with few to no first language speakers, archival-based work has become vital
National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages awarded
National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages awarded the ATALM 2024 International Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Language Program Institutional Excellence Award.
Oxford and Miami’s ties to Native American culture
November is Native American Heritage month, and Oxford residents don't have to go far to engage with local Native American history.. By Austin Smith, Oxford Free Press, Nov 1, 2024
Cam Shriver has humble gumption
On a brisk September morning, Saturday, Sept. 7, about 40 people attended Cam Shriver’s presentation hosted by Chautauqua Wawasee on the survival of the Myaamia people. The event was held at ...
National Breath of Life Awarded by ATALM
National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages wins international award for helping tribes keep their languages alive. By Margo Rutledge Kissell, Miami University Communicatio...
Family, Tribe, and the Revitalization of the Myaamia Language
Daryl Baldwin, Executive Director of the Myaamia Center, provides a brief history of the work of myaamiaki 'Myaamia people' on the revitalization of myaamiaataweenki 'the Myaamia lan...
Myaamia tribal history includes fire practices that reshaped Ohio environment
Indigenous communities across the world founded the practice of prescribed fires in their respective homelands. And in our region, the Myaamia tribe was one of those groups.
In WYSO’s latest podcast, “The Ohio Country,” the perspectives of Ohio’s tribal nations are at the center of a refreshed version of Ohio’s complicated history.
The MacMillan Hall classroom was a gift from Miami University to the Tribe in 2022 to commemorate their unique 50-year relationship
A Myaamia (Miami) and Shawnee view of the eclipse
The solar eclipse path of totality encompasses the ancestral homelands of several Native American nations, including the Myaamia, or Miami, and the three Shawnee nations.
The department of history at Bowling Green State University has produced a podcast that looks back at eclipses of the past and explores the ways that different people from Canada, Mexico and the Un...
New exhibit explores revitalization of Miami, Peoria tribes' art form
A recently opened exhibit in Oxford explores the practice of creating painted deerskin hides by the Miami and Peoria tribes of Oklahoma.
The exhibition, which runs from Jan. 30 through June 8, will feature a number of recent examples of painted deer hides and document the process of revitalization of this tradition after its decline...
External funding at Miami University sets another record in fiscal year 2023
“Our portfolio of awards is a glimpse of the outstanding work at Miami in both research and public service,” Rick Page said
Art Museum to hold Heritage Symposium Oct 5-6
In conjunction with the current exhibition, Heritage: Shaping Past, Present, Future a two-day symposium is being held at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) at Miami University. Partici...
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Develops Community Oriented Education Portal
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma’s Eemamwiciki Educational team is launching a new online community-oriented educational resource called Šaapohkaayoni, which is the Myaamia term for ‘po...
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma awarded national honor for revitalization effort
The Myaamia Center has been instrumental in the "awakening" of Myaamia culture and language
Associated Student Government announces Outstanding Professor Award, top 10 nominees
Stephanie Danker, associate professor of Art, received the 2023 award
Myaamia Center, IT Services win 2023 CIO 100 Award
The collaborative work will bring the knowledge and tools necessary for successful language revitalization to more Native peoples in the U.S. and beyond
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