{"id":17037,"date":"2021-10-19T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:11:56","slug":"indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Country Today: Miami Nation returns to homelands on Indigenous Peoples Day"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/myaamiacenter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17040\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1191\" data-attachment-id=\"17040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/myaamiacenter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaCenter.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1191\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Myaamia Center\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;yaamia students tied 330 strips of fabric onto trees across the Miami University campus in Ohio &amp;#8211; one for each Myaamia citizen who was removed from their ancestral lands in 1846. The tribe has now partnered with the university to open the Myaamia Center and is working to restore its language and culture. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaCenter-1024x476.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaCenter.jpg\" alt=\"Myaamia Center\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-17040\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Myaamia students tied 330 strips of fabric onto trees across the Miami University campus in Ohio &#8211; one for each Myaamia citizen who was removed from their ancestral lands in 1846. The tribe has now partnered with the university to open the Myaamia Center and is working to restore its language and culture. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Myaamia tribe commemorates forced removal 175 years ago<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Tribe now partners with Miami University in language, culture revitalization<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, October 19, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Mary Annette Pember <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mapember\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/a><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indian Country Today<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-website\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/\">indiancountrytoday.com<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIndigenous Peoples Day on October 11 also marked the day 175 years ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/miamination.com\">Myaamia tribal citizens<\/a> were forcibly removed from their homelands near the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nMyaamia 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.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nRecipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamioh.edu\/miami-tribe-relations\/programming-support\/myaamia-heritage-award-program\/index.html\">Miami Heritage Award Program<\/a> 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.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nToday, 39 Myaamia students attend the university with a fee waiver as part of the Heritage Award.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/douglaslankforddarrylbaldwin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1064\" data-attachment-id=\"17041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/douglaslankforddarrylbaldwin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/DouglasLankfordDarrylBaldwin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1064\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Douglas Lankford and Darryl Baldwin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Myaamia Chief Douglas Lankford and Myaamia Center executive Darryl Baldwin stand in from of the sculpture, &amp;#8220;A tribe called Miami,&amp;#8221; created by tribal member Eugene Brown, during a ceremony Oct. 11, 2021, commemorating the tribe&amp;#8217;s removal from ancestral lands 175 years ago in 1846. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/DouglasLankfordDarrylBaldwin-1024x778.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/DouglasLankfordDarrylBaldwin.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Lankford and Darryl Baldwin\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-17041\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Myaamia Chief Douglas Lankford and Myaamia Center executive Darryl Baldwin stand in from of the sculpture, &#8220;A tribe called Miami,&#8221; created by tribal member Eugene Brown, during a ceremony Oct. 11, 2021, commemorating the tribe&#8217;s removal from ancestral lands 175 years ago in 1846. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nMyaamia Chief Douglas Lankford addressed a crowd of about 200 people who gathered at the university\u2019s art museum for the occasion. His voice broke with emotion as he described the ancestors\u2019 love for their homeland. Forced at gunpoint onto longboats to leave the only home they had ever known, they dropped to their knees, grabbing handfuls of earth.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cClasses were likely in session here at the university when the boats taking our ancestors to Kansas passed nearby,\u201d Lankford said.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nOn that day so long ago, Myaamia citizens were taken first to Kansas then later to Oklahoma, the tribe\u2019s current home.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nSo much has happened since. Today, Myaammia leaders of the reinvigorated tribe commemorated their removal and celebrated a remarkable new relationship, an initiative with Miami University that has helped reclaim their language, culture and pride.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/myaamiastudents\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"858\" data-attachment-id=\"17042\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/19\/indian-country-today-miami-nation-returns-to-homelands-on-indigenous-peoples-day\/myaamiastudents\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaStudents.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,858\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Myaamia Students\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Myaamia students, winners of the Miami University Heritage Award program, hang 330 strips of cloth, one for each tribal removed from their lands in 1846, in trees on the Miami University campus on Oct. 11, 2021. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaStudents-1024x628.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaStudents.jpg\" alt=\"Myaamia Students\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-17042\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Myaamia students, winners of the Miami University Heritage Award program, hang 330 strips of cloth, one for each tribal removed from their lands in 1846, in trees on the Miami University campus on Oct. 11, 2021. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember\/Indian Country Today)<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe partnership between the tribe and university helped create the <a href=https:\/\/miamioh.edu\/myaamia-center\/>Myaamia Center<\/a> located on the Miami campus. Center founder Daryl Baldwin of the Myaamia tribe and others <a href=https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/news\/-the-thing-that-thinks-fast-is-a-new-way-to-teach-indigenous-languages>revitalized a language that was declared dead<\/a> in the 1960s. Since the center\u2019s beginnings in 2001, the program has set the bar for Indigenous language and cultural revitalization, winning support from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and others.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nLankford noted that the partnership marks a new day for the tribe.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cToday we thrive again as a sovereign nation,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was made possible by the reclamation of our language and culture. This healing journey has been supported by allies and friends.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nOvercome again with emotion, Lankford added, \u201cI express the deepest gratitude of my people to you on this day. We now walk together on a good path.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAt the culmination of the ceremony, Madelyn Jett, Miami student body president, read the university\u2019s land acknowledgement, underscoring the school\u2019s commitment to working as partners with the tribe.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cIt is impossible to separate the history of Miami University from the trauma Myaamia people endured,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is essential that students recognize our university exists in part due to the forced removal of Indigenous people from this land and the transfer of these lands by treaty to the American government.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On October 11, Miami University commemorated the 175th anniversary of the Myaamia Forced Removal. 1\/3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/egBkih2KRE\">pic.twitter.com\/egBkih2KRE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Myaamia Center (@MyaamiaCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyaamiaCenter\/status\/1448301581582024712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nJett encouraged students and staff to read the acknowledgement at all university events.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cIt is our responsibility as learners,\u201d she said, \u201cto educate ourselves about this history and show respect and reverence for this land.\u201d \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe, is a national correspondent for Indian Country Today.\r\n<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThis article originally <a href=https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/news\/myaamia-tribe-commemorates-forced-removal-175-years-ago3>appeared on Indian Country Today<\/a>, an an independent news enterprise owned by IndiJ Public Media, an Arizona nonprofit company that sustains itself with funding from members, donors, foundations, and supporters.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nICT does not charge for subscriptions and tribal media (or any media, for that matter) can use the publication\u2019s content for free. <a href=http:\/\/support.indiancountrytoday.com\/>Contribute to Indian Country Today<\/a>.\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaForcedRemoval-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Myaamia Forced Removal\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indigenous Peoples Day marked the day 175 years ago when Myaamia tribal citizens were forcibly removed from their homelands near the campus of Miami University in Ohio.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[2085,2084,176,129,603,175,130,2083],"class_list":["post-17037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-national","tag-darryl-baldwin","tag-douglas-lankford","tag-genocide","tag-ict","tag-indigenous-peoples-day","tag-languages","tag-mary-annette-pember","tag-miami","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/19\/MyaamiaForcedRemoval-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-4qN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}