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Wrapping Up the Semester at Miami University
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Myaamiaki 'Myaamia people' hold Myaamia lacrosse sticks to the air at the beginning of a community lacrosse game. Photo by Karen Baldwin, Cultural Resource Office.
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| Staff at the Myaamia Center have spent the last several weeks wrapping up on-campus programming as we transition into the summer months. The outreach office recently finished its first Indigenizing the Curriculum program with faculty across Miami's campus. This program guides interested faculty through best practices for including Indigenous knowledge in their classrooms. This month, participants presented their final work to the Myaamia Center staff.
As we shift our attention toward community programs, the newsletter will be going on a summer hiatus while our staff travel to Miami, OK, and Fort Wayne, IN. We will return in August as we welcome a new cohort of Myaamia Heritage students to campus.
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Miami University Focus: Tribal Sovereignty
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Miami University's FOCUS initiative coordinates activities of many groups, centers, and departments across campus to explore an important 'big-idea' topic.
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| This year Miami University’s Focus Program chose to explore the topic of Tribal Sovereignty to bring new perspectives on contemporary Tribal Nations to Miami University’s campus. Myaamia Center staff worked with various departments, centers, and institutes across campus to host educational programming throughout the 2023 spring semester.
Focus Program guests, in order of appearance, included Sterlin Harjo, writer, director, and producer of Reservation Dogs; Rebecca Nagle, journalist, and This Land podcast host; Dr. Gregory Ablavsky; Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University; and Abel Stose, Miami Tribe Chief of Police. Click the links above to learn more about each presentation!
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Aacimotaatiiyankwi: A Myaamia Community Blog
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Redbud tree at Miami University. Photo by Scott Kissel, Miami University
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| The weather is getting warmer which means, if you pay attention, there are a ton of ecological changes occurring. One of those changes is the flowering of eeyoonsaawikiša ‘Eastern Redbud Tree’. These trees have prominent purple buds that are among the first to appear in meeloohkamiki ‘spring.’
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Myaamia Education Office Updates
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The Drake House in Miami, Oklahoma, 2022. Photo by Jonathan Fox, Myaamia Center
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| As the academic year comes to an end, we look forward to seeing everyone during our summer programs as we explore kiikinaana ‘Our Homes!’ Over the course of a week, we explore the changing nature and threads of continuity linking our historic wiikiaami to our homes today. In particular, we are excited to learn more about homes from our Neehsapita (adult) participants. In the past, they have shared wonderful memories and histories of places we often visit such as Siipiihkwa Awiiki ‘Drake House.’ There is still time for community members to apply for our summer programs! Applications are due May 26, 2023.
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keetwi iišileniciki neepwaaminciki? What are Myaamia Students up to?
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(Left to right) Logan Patrick, Gretchen Spenn, Grace Lankford, Sabrina Stern, Abby Strack, Shelby Carter, Jack Scribner. Photo by Karen Baldwin, Cultural Resource Office.
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| It’s a bit quieter at Miami University and Oxford this week, as most of Miami University’s students have left campus for summer break. As the staff here at the Myaamia Center transition into neepinwiki ‘summer’ and prepare for summer programs, we wanted to reflect on this past academic year.
This past weekend, on May 13, we hosted our final event on campus for the semester, a graduation celebration. We gathered outside the Myaamia Center with the 7 Myaamia Heritage Program graduates and their guests, to celebrate their accomplishments at Miami University and the Myaamia Heritage Program.
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Upcoming Events & Opportunities
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Photo by Doug Peconge, Cultural Resouce Extension Office
Poetry at Miami Exhibition: Spring 2023
Features two Myaamia pieces, "Seven Pillars on the Mississinewa" by Joshua Sutterfield and "Measuring Neehseehpineenki ‘COVID’" by George Ironstrack on the third floor of King Library in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections and Archives
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