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Myaamia Center, Miami University's IT receive national CIO 100 Award
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Gabriela Perez-Baez, co-director of National Breath of Life, works with Dr. Doug Troy and Chitraketu Pandey from the software development team. Photo by Karen Baldwin, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
The Myaamia Center, with support from Miami University’s 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.

The annual CIO 100 Awards celebrate 100 organizations and their teams that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, or improving relationships with customers. 
Read more about the Award
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.
Dr. Gregory Ablavsky, the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law and a Professor of History at Stanford University, presented “The Past, Present, and Future of Native Sovereignty in Federal Law” at Miami University on March 27th. Dr. Ablavsky discussed legal decisions impacting tribal sovereignty throughout history as well as the current state of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Click here to watch the presentation. 

Earlier in April, Miami Tribe Police Chief Abel Stose visited Miami University’s Oxford and Hamilton campuses. Police Chief Stose was able to stop by the Myaamia Center for a visit with our staff, after hosting a virtual lecture on the history of the Miami Tribe and the challenges his department currently faces regarding sovereignty and overlapping jurisdictions. 
Read more about Stose's Lecture

Aacimotaatiiyankwi: A Myaamia Community Blog
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 ciinkwia minohsaya ‘Painted Thunderbird Robe’ – Robe peinte from Musée du quai Branly No. inventaire: 71.1878.32.134 
At the end of 2020, a group of scholars came together to discuss a Miami-Illinois minohsaya ‘painted hide’ that is held at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France. Collectively, they wrote a series of posts on Aacimotaatiiyankwi sharing the results of these discussions. Members of this group of scholars were able to visit this minohsaya in April 2023. 
Read Interpretations of a Robe

Myaamia Education Office Updates
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A miniature ciinkwia minohsaya and bone tool. Photo by Doug Peconge, Miami Tribe Cultural Resources Extension Office
meehtikoošionkiši iiyaayaanki ‘We went to France.’ This April a small team from the Myaamia and Peewaalia ‘Peoria’ minohsaya ‘painted hide’ research group traveled to Paris, France to visit the Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac and spend time with a series of painted hides that date to the 1700s. The small team included George Ironstrack (Myaamia Center), Scott Shoemaker (Myaamia artist), and Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria Tribe citizen and historian). We were joined in Paris by representatives from the Quapaw Tribe and Choctaw Nation. It was an amazing experience to spend time with and touch minohsaya that many Myaamiaki and Peewaaliaki ‘Peoria people’ have admired from afar through photos for decades. We are extremely grateful to the team at the Musée du quai Branly for being such wonderful hosts and to the generous financial support from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities Without Walls grant. We look forward to sharing what we learned about these hides in future blog posts and during in-person presentations this summer. You can read more about our work with minohsaya below. 
Minohsaya ‘Painted Hide’ Workshop Recap

keetwi iišileniciki neepwaaminciki? What are Myaamia Students up to?
Six students stand in a line to show off the projects they're working on.
(Left to right) Jared Nally, Connor Humenay, George Ironstrack, and Jill Fanning enjoy iihkisaminki 'maple syrup' and waffles. Photo by Stella Beerman, Myaamia Center 
It’s been a busy month here in Oxford for our Myaamia Heritage Program. Recently, a group of students participated in a ribbon skirt-making workshop, led by Karen Baldwin. Students spent the day learning to prepare, cut, measure, and sew their own ribbon skirts. The Myaamia Center also hosted our annual waffle breakfast at the Myaamia Center, to enjoy the iihkisaminki ‘maple syrup’ collected and processed on campus by Myaamia Heritage students and our staff. 

As the semester begins to wind down, our students are turning their focus to finals and preparing for the Miami Tribe’s summer educational programs. Our senior students are wrapping up their Myaamia Heritage Program senior projects and preparing for Commencement on May 13-14, 2023.
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Upcoming Events & Opportunities
Call for 2023-2024 Applications:  
Indigenizing the Curriculum Workshop
The Myaamia Center and the Miami University Provost’s Office invite interested faculty from all departments to apply to be a part of the 2023-2024 Indigenizing the Curriculum Workshop. The cohort will include 10-12 accepted participants with meetings beginning in August 2023. 
Applications due: Friday, April 28, 2023
Click here to learn more and apply 
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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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