Letter from the Director of the Myaamia Center - August 2025
Executive Director of the Myaamia Center, Daryl Baldwin, provides updates on the operations of the Myaamia Center as the 2025 academic year begins at Miami University's Oxford campus.
Myaamia Center News
Mia Hankenson ’25: ‘The energy, the people, and the cultural richness created an atmosphere unlike anything I’ve ever been a part of’
Headline Highlights: Miami and Miamians in the news in June
Our editors' picks provide a snapshot of recent news media coverage
Myaamia students to participate at Smithsonian Folklife Festival in nation’s capital July 2-7
The students — all citizens of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma — will share their knowledge in four cultural areas: lacrosse, the myaamia language, ribbonwork, and gardening
Myaamia students to participate at Smithsonian Folklife Festival in D.C. this July
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is one of four tribes invited to take part in this year’s festival, which honors contemporary living cultural traditions and celebrates those who practice and sust...
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.
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
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