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Myaamia tribe commemorates forced removal 175 years ago
Tribe now partners with Miami University in language, culture revitalization
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Indian Country Today
Indigenous Peoples Day on October 11 also marked the day 175 years ago when Myaamia tribal citizens were forcibly removed from their homelands near the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Myaamia tribal leaders, citizens and Miami University officials and students gathered to commemorate that fateful day when it seemed everything Myaamia was lost. Their collective mourning, however, was lightened by recognition of the remarkable partnership between the tribe and university that helped restore the lost Myaamia language and culture, offering healing and reclamation of pride in being Myaamia.
Recipients of the Miami Heritage Award Program hung 330 strips of cloth on trees throughout campus, one for every tribal citizen who was removed from their homelands in 1846, 16 years after President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Today, 39 Myaamia students attend the university with a fee waiver as part of the Heritage Award.
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Jett encouraged students and staff to read the acknowledgement at all university events. “It is our responsibility as learners,” she said, “to educate ourselves about this history and show respect and reverence for this land.”On October 11, Miami University commemorated the 175th anniversary of the Myaamia Forced Removal. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/egBkih2KRE
— Myaamia Center (@MyaamiaCenter) October 13, 2021
Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe, is a national correspondent for Indian Country Today.
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