Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization Myaamia Center

For this episode, Tina and Myaamia student Kaleb McMullen sat down to talk with Myaamia community members as they attended the Myaamiaki Conference. The 2024 Myaamiaki Conference was the 10th Biennial Conference, held on Miami University's Oxford campus.

From January 30 to June 8, 2024, the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University is hosting the "Minohsayaki ‘Painted Robes’: A Peewaalia and Myaamia Story of Reclamation". This exhibition tells of the effort to reclaim the practice of hide painting within the Peewaaliaki and Myaamiaki communities and reconnect those practices with the stories that are essential to who they are as a people. Our hosts provide a brief rundown of the exhibit and some of the things you can expect to f...

After every Spring Commencement at Miami University, the Myaamia Center hosts a special gathering for Myaamia graduates and their families to celebrate their graduation from the Myaamia Heritage Award program and the other successes of the academic year. This short describes a little of what this experience is like.

In this Neepwaantiinki Short, the hosts discuss what it's like when Myaamia students from all across the country move to Oxford, OH, to begin their studies at Miami University.

This season we’re doing something a little different. Get a preview of our season of “Neepwaantiinki Shorts”.

Within the Myaamia community we often say that revitalization is about more than language. In this episode, Kara, Kristina, and George look at the revitalization of peekitahaminki ‘lacrosse’ as an example of the process and impacts of community revitalization through a sport that has some of the deepest Indigenous roots in North America. They are joined for this episode by Haley Shea, who speaks to the impact of cultural revitalization and specifically peekitahaminki in the Myaamia comm...