Miami University’s Myaamia Center is committed to preserving the language and culture of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. The Tribe is just as committed to the Myaamia Center and its mission.
With its recent $2 million contribution to the Myaamia Center’s endowment, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is helping to ensure the continued growth and expansion of the center.
“This major gift to the Myaamia Center endowment signifies not only the commitment from Tribal leadership toward the ongoing preservation of this effort, but serves as a message to future generations that we will continue to invest in our educational initiatives in order to serve all Myaamia people wherever they may live,” said Daryl Baldwin, executive director of the Myaamia Center.
Created in 2001 and originally known as the Myaamia Project, the center is the heart of the Tribe’s cultural and language revitalization work. Now with 16 dedicated staff members and significant momentum toward revitalizing the Myaamia language, the center speaks to the commitment between the Tribe and the university to neepwaantiinki – the Myaamia term for “learning from each other.”