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03/28/2023
Myaamia Center, IT Services win 2023 CIO 100 Award
The Myaamia Center, with support from Miami University IT Services, has received a national CIO 100 Award for using innovative ways to deliver the National Breath of Life: Capacity Building for Community Language Archivists Apprenticeship Program. Margo Rutledge Kissell, Miami University Communications and Marketing, Mar. 28, 2023
02/09/2023
Myaamia Winter Gathering by Miami University
The 26th Annual Myaamia Winter Gathering was held January 27-28, 2023. The event doubled as a final celebration of the 50th anniversary of the partnership between the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University. Miami University Communications and Marketing, Feb. 9 , 2023
02/02/2023
This parent reclaimed her heritage because of where her son went to college
Growing up, Kathy Carter Young knew her heritage. She knew she was Myaamia (Miami). Her father, born in Richmond, Ind., would take her to visit important, sacred sites like Seven Pillars near Peru, Ind., along the Mississinewa River. Tana Weingartner, 91.7 WVXU, Feb. 2, 2023
02/02/2023
Myaamia Data and More
Native communities around the world are looking for ways to maintain their culture and their language. Meanwhile, some colleges and universities in the U.S. are trying to come to terms with the fact that their campuses are located on what were once tribal lands. Stats and Stories, Feb 2, 2023
02/01/2023
The Miami Tribe's partnership with Miami University helps revive 'silent stories'
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's annual Winter Gathering, held the last weekend in January, is an opportunity to share aalhsoohkaana or "winter stories." Tana Weingartner, 91.7 WVXU, Feb 1, 2023
01/31/2023
Associate Professor Stephanie Danker publishes Conceptualizing Art Integration Through Currere
This article looks at how “currere led us to awareness of moments of tension impacting our teaching practices in which we have privileged community partner voices over our students.” Miami University College of Creative Arts, January 31, 2023
01/30/2023
Ancestral games help the Miami Tribe build relationships
More than a hundred Miami University students and staff are back in Oxford after traveling to Oklahoma for the Miami Tribe's annual Winter Gathering. While there, they learned about the partnership between the two Miamis, especially how it has lead to language and culture revitalization. Tana Weingartner, 91.7 WVXU, Jan. 30, 2023
01/27/2023
Winter Gathering caps 50th anniversary commemoration of the two Miamis
A group of Miami University students, staff and faculty are in Miami, Okla. — headquarters of the Miami Tribe — this weekend to cap off a year-long commemoration of the two Miamis' partnership, referred to as neepwaantiinki, the Myaamia word meaning "learning from each other." Tana Weingartner, 91.7 WVXU, Jan. 27, 2023
11/16/2022
The Two Miamis Celebrating 50 years
When Chief Forest Olds of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma made an unplanned visit to Miami University in 1972, it set in motion a relationship between the two Miamis that continues to thrive today.