/tags/myaamia-center Myaamia Center en-US Copyright Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:57:59 GMT /local-news/2025-02-10/myaamia-center-mellon-foundation-revive-indigenous-languages-miami-university The $2.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation will expand the work being done at the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages. Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:57:59 GMT /local-news/2025-02-10/myaamia-center-mellon-foundation-revive-indigenous-languages-miami-university Tana Weingartner /local-news/2024-04-04/a-myaamia-miami-and-shawnee-view-of-the-eclipse That path of totality encompasses the ancestral homelands of several Native American nations, including the Myaamia, or Miami, and the three Shawnee nations. That has Myaamia researchers thinking about language, and historians recalling a story about a famous pair of Shawnee brothers. Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:59:57 GMT /local-news/2024-04-04/a-myaamia-miami-and-shawnee-view-of-the-eclipse Tana Weingartner /local-news/2024-02-07/painted-robes-miami-peoria-tribes-art-form Minohsayaki ‘Painted Robes' is a first-time collaboration between the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University and the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, along with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:35:10 GMT /local-news/2024-02-07/painted-robes-miami-peoria-tribes-art-form Tana Weingartner /local-news/2023-02-07/miami-tribe-oklahoma-miami-university-ohio-commitment-partnership Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma spent the last year commemorating the 50th anniversary of partnering to learn from each other. University students and staff traveled to the tribe's recent Winter Gathering in Oklahoma — a capstone to the yearlong celebration. WVXU's Tana Weingartner was invited along and brings back this look at what the partnership means to so many. Tue, 07 Feb 2023 08:24:00 GMT /local-news/2023-02-07/miami-tribe-oklahoma-miami-university-ohio-commitment-partnership Tana Weingartner /local-news/2023-02-02/miami-university-myaamia-partnership-parent-heritage Growing up, Kathy Carter Young knew she was Myaamia (Miami), but says she didn't truly know what that meant. Then her son went to Miami University. Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:05:00 GMT /local-news/2023-02-02/miami-university-myaamia-partnership-parent-heritage Tana Weingartner /local-news/2023-02-01/miami-tribe-storytelling-miami-university-partnership The two Miamis formed a partnership in 1972 that has grown and evolved, resulting in, among other things, a cultural revitalization. One outcome of that work has been finding and learning Myaamia stories that hadn't been told in many years. Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:15:00 GMT /local-news/2023-02-01/miami-tribe-storytelling-miami-university-partnership Tana Weingartner /local-news/2023-01-30/miami-tribe-games-relationships-myaamia-family 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 led to language and culture revitalization. Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:16:00 GMT /local-news/2023-01-30/miami-tribe-games-relationships-myaamia-family Tana Weingartner /local-news/2023-01-27/winter-gathering-50th-anniversary-miami-university-tribe A group of Miami University students, staff and faculty are in Miami, Okla. — headquarters of the Miami Tribe — to cap off a year-long commemoration of the two Miamis' partnership, referred to as 'neepwaantiinki,' the Myaamia word meaning "learning from each other." Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMT /local-news/2023-01-27/winter-gathering-50th-anniversary-miami-university-tribe Tana Weingartner /education/2022-11-07/miami-university-miami-tribe-oklahoma-50-years-neepwaantiinki Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma are hosting a week-long series of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of neepwaantiinki, the Myaamia word meaning "learning from each other." The celebration is the cornerstone event to a year-long commemoration of the two Miamis' partnership. Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:53:00 GMT /education/2022-11-07/miami-university-miami-tribe-oklahoma-50-years-neepwaantiinki Tana Weingartner /local-news/2022-04-04/chief-of-miami-tribe-talks-about-50-years-of-partnership-with-miami-university Miami University is celebrating 50 years of partnership with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Chief Doug Lankford is participating in the biennial Myaamiaki Conference as part of the year-long commemoration. Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:04:00 GMT /local-news/2022-04-04/chief-of-miami-tribe-talks-about-50-years-of-partnership-with-miami-university Tana Weingartner