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Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Exploring Myaamia Ribbonwork
form in the Myaamia community since the introduction of silk ribbons through trade. In this episode our hosts, along with special guests Scott Shoemaker and Meghan Dorey, explore that history and how the revitalization of ribbonwork has become a model for the revitalization of other artforms in the Myaamia community.Show Notes: https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/neepwaantiinki-podcast-season-4-show-notes/
2025-11-14
33 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Visiting with minohsayaki 'painted hides' - Part 1
In 2023, 2024 and 2025, representatives of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, along with citizens of other tribal nations, were afforded the opportunity to visit with minohsayki 'painted hides' in Paris, France. In this first episode on the revitalization of hide painting our hosts chat with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, (citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma) and Logan York (Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma ) about their experiences visiting the robes.Show Notes: https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/neepwaantiinki-podcast-season-4-show-notes/
2025-11-14
42 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Visiting with minohsayaki 'painted hides' - Part 2
In the second half of our discussion about minohsayaki 'painted hides', the hosts are joined by Nate Poyfair (Second Councilperson and Cultural Resources Office Project Manager, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma) and Meghan Dorey (Manager of the Myaamia Heritage Museum and Archive). Nate and Meghan share their experiences with the Reclaiming Stories Learning Labs, where participants were able to learn about each step of the process used to produce a painted hide: hunting, hide tanning, harvesting and making pigments, and finally painting the hide. Show Notes: https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/neepwaantiinki-podcast-season-4-show-notes/
2025-11-14
35 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
A Visit with Jared Nally
ahsapa 'Jared Nally' is a weaver in the Myaamia Community. In this episode he joins Kara, Tina, and George to discuss his weaving as well as his experiences as an aanchtaakia 'Change Maker' Graduate Fellow at Miami University, where he studied environmental science and its intersection with Myaamia weaving practices.Show Notes: https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/neepwaantiinki-podcast-season-4-show-notes/
2025-11-14
33 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
A Visit with Megan Sekulich
Join our hosts for a chat with Oonsaalamoona 'Megan Sekulich', a Myaamia artist of many talents, to learn about her experiences as a student, an artist, and a Myaamia person. She discusses her evolution as an artist both personally and as part of her work at the Myaamia Center.Show Notes: https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/neepwaantiinki-podcast-season-4-show-notes/
2025-11-14
42 min
The Miami University-Oxford Podcast
Miami University Welcomes New Students, Celebrates Myaamia Center at Smithsonian, and Preps for RedHawks Football Season
Welcome to the latest episode of our campus news podcast. Today is Monday, August 18, 2025, and here's what's happening at Miami University-Oxford. As the new academic year begins, Miami University is welcoming a diverse and talented group of first-year students. Move-in day is always a mix of excitement and emotion, as families help their students settle into campus life. President Gregory Crawford was on hand to greet students and their families, emphasizing the university's commitment to providing a supportive and enriching environment. In other news, the Myaamia Center has been invited to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D...
2025-08-18
02 min
Front Light
Ep 8 - “None are free until all are free": the intersection of Palestinian and queer justice, with Annabeth Roeschley of BMC.
“None are free until all are free” is a quote attributed to luminaries working for justice throughout history: Emma Lazarus, Fannie Lou Hammer, Martin Luther King Jr., and Maya Angelou. In this episode, we interview Annabeth Roeschley (they/she), the Director of the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests. They are a long-time activist and advisor for queer intersectional justice within and beyond Mennonite Church USA. Annabeth embodies this role as a queer abolitionist theologian, spiritual care curator, and politicized chaplain who dwells at the intersections of individual and collective healing. A graduate of Bluffton University, Annabeth holds...
2025-06-11
1h 04
Behaviour Speak with Ben Reiman
Episode 210: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization with Dr. Haley Shea
In this conversation, Dr. Haley Shea, a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, discusses her work at the Myaamia Centre, focusing on cultural and language revitalization efforts. She shares insights into the history of the Myaamia people, the significance of the Heritage Award Program at Miami University, and the impact of language on community wellbeing. The conversation highlights the importance of community engagement, assessment, and evaluation in fostering cultural identity and growth within the Myaamia Tribe. Watch the video of this conversation here! https://youtu.be/bFePALDOcTg Continuing Education Credits (https://www.cbiconsultants.com/sho...
2025-04-28
1h 24
Pow Wow Life - PowWows.com
Indigenous Chicago
Join me for an interview with the curator and organizers of the Indigenous Chicago project.Home to the Potawatomi, Odawa, Ojibwe, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Myaamia, Wea, Sauk, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk peoples, the place we now call Chicago has long been a historic crossroads for many Indigenous people and remains home to an extensive urban Native community. Yet most Chicagoans are unaware of the city’s history as a home to diverse Indigenous peoples and the vibrant Indigenous communities present today. Part of a multifaceted initiative developed in partnership between the Newberry, advisors from the Chicago Native community, and rep...
2025-01-14
28 min
Nine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death work
Craft Your Own Magic with Cassie Uhl
In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder talks with death worker colleague, collective work comrade, and fellow magical being Cassie Uhl about her new book Craft Your Own Magic. This episode is loaded with tenderness, insight and healing.Cassie Uhl (she/her) is a magic practitioner, death and energy worker, rites of passage facilitator, artist, and author. She is the author and illustrator of several books and card decks, including the Journey Tarot deck, Understanding Tarot, Understanding Auras, Understanding The Wheel of The Year, Craft Your Own Magic, and The Ritual Deck (reboot coming in 2025).
2024-12-15
1h 05
The Ohio Country
The Ohio Country Episode 10: Renewing the Miami Tribe
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University have partnered since the 1970s. This relationship resulted in the Myaamia Center, a research and education initiative.
2024-09-10
31 min
In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
The Mission To Save The ‘Sleeping’ Language That Named Chicago
The language that gave Chicago its name had not been spoken in more than 50 years – until recently. Chicagoans of Myaamia (or Miami) heritage have been reviving their native language, Myaamiaataweenki – and even creating new words for modern times. Reset speaks with Chicago Reader journalist Paul Dailing as well as George Strack and Brad Kasberg, two descendants of the Myaamiaki, about what it takes to revive a language no one spoke, and what this work means to them. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
2024-08-12
23 min
The Ohio Country
The Ohio Country Episode 5: The Fort Ancient Culture
Shawnee and Myaamia ancestral cultures have been grouped into the Adena, Hopewell and Fort Ancient eras. Fort Ancient era people thrived for 700 years before Europeans arrived.
2024-08-06
33 min
Beyond High Street
Lance Theobald, CEO, Miami Nation Enterprises
Farmer School dean Jenny Darroch talks with 2010 accountancy alum Lance Theobald about his early years as an entrepreneur, his work on behalf of the Myaamia people as a member of the tribe, and what happened to the car he had during a trip to New Zealand.
2024-06-24
26 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Live at the Myaamiaki Conference
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.
2024-05-15
14 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Preview of minohsayaki 'Painted Hide Robes' Art Exhibit
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 find when visiting!This episode was recorded live on-site at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Muse...
2024-04-18
18 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Myaamia Graduation at Miami University
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.
2024-04-18
11 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
When Myaamia Students Return to Campus
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.
2024-04-18
07 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Season 3 - Neepwaantiinki Shorts - Teaser
This season we’re doing something a little different. Get a preview of our season of “Neepwaantiinki Shorts”.
2024-04-18
00 min
The Waystation Podcast
Austin Warren Coats - The Waystation Podcast
On this episode we talk with dancer and illustrator Austin Warren Coats. Austin is Originally from Reynoldsburg Ohio, original territory of the Ofo, Myaamia, Shawandasse Tula, Hopewell, and Kaskaskia peoples. He has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance Studies from Kent State University and an MFA From New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Austin currently performs with Ronald K Brown's EVIDENCE Dance Company. Coats also has many interests in the arts including writing, illustration, dance, film, and fashion design. He has published illustrations in college publications and has provided artwork for various creative projects. His l...
2024-01-25
48 min
New Books in Food
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance (Lexington Books, 2023) focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement. During World War II the Italian Resistance marked an unprecedented encounter between the urban and intellectual resistance and peasant culture, contributing to the creation of a new legacy of organic intellectuals. The organic int...
2023-12-30
1h 06
New Books in Intellectual History
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance (Lexington Books, 2023) focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement. During World War II the Italian Resistance marked an unprecedented encounter between the urban and intellectual resistance and peasant culture, contributing to the creation of a new legacy of organic intellectuals. The organic int...
2023-12-30
1h 06
New Books in Italian Studies
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance (Lexington Books, 2023) focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement. During World War II the Italian Resistance marked an unprecedented encounter between the urban and intellectual resistance and peasant culture, contributing to the creation of a new legacy of organic intellectuals. The organic int...
2023-12-30
1h 06
Ben Franklin's World
374 The American Revolutionary War in the West
The American Revolution and its War for Independence comprised the United States’ founding movement. The War for Independence also served as the fifth major war for European empire in North America. The fourth war for European empire, the Seven Years’ War, reshaped and redefined Europe’s worldwide colonial landscape in Great Britain’s favor. The American Revolutionary War presented Britain’s European rivals with an opportunity to regain some of the territory they had lost. An opportunity we can see those rivals seizing in the Revolutionary War’s Western Theater. Stephen Kl...
2023-12-26
54 min
Ben Franklin's World
374 The American Revolutionary War in the West
The American Revolution and its War for Independence comprised the United States’ founding movement. The War for Independence also served as the fifth major war for European empire in North America. The fourth war for European empire, the Seven Years’ War, reshaped and redefined Europe’s worldwide colonial landscape in Great Britain’s favor. The American Revolutionary War presented Britain’s European rivals with an opportunity to regain some of the territory they had lost. An opportunity we can see those rivals seizing in the Revolutionary War’s Western Theater. Stephen Kling, Jr., is the author and co-author of several books and ar...
2023-12-26
52 min
Common Good Podcast
La Shanda Sugg: Collective Change Conversations with The Hive
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging. For this week's episode, Daniel Hughes and Joey Taylor speak with La Shanda Sugg as a part of a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change. La Shanda says, "I am a translator and healer living in a fat, Black woman's body. My lived experiences in my numerous intersecting identities, along with my gifts and talents, have called me to create safe spaces for exploration, healing, and growth. A native of Detroit, Michigan (stolen land of th...
2023-12-12
56 min
Ben Franklin's World
372 A History of the Myaamia
Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and nations living in different areas of North America before the Spanish and other European empires arrived on the continent’s shores. Diane Hunter and John Bickers join us to investigate the history and culture of one of these distinct Indigenous tribes: the Myaamia. At the time of this recording, Diane Hunter was the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. She has since retired from that position. John Bickers is an Assistant Pr...
2023-11-28
1h 08
Ben Franklin's World
372 A History of the Myaamia
Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and nations living in different areas of North America before the Spanish and other European empires arrived on the continent’s shores. Diane Hunter and John Bickers join us to investigate the history and culture of one of these distinct Indigenous tribes: the Myaamia. At the time of this recording, Diane Hunter was the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. She has since retired from that po...
2023-11-28
1h 10
5 Things: Good Vibes in DEI
Ouch Moments with Kelvin Goss
Here Are This Week's Good Vibes:Achieving Gender Parity in M.B.A. ProgramsInclusivity Revamp by the American Ornithological SocietyNFL's Inclusive Fan Gear InitiativeSony's Accessible Gaming Controller LaunchBreaking Barriers: Admiral Lisa Franchetti's Historic AchievementCall to Action: In observation of Native American Heritage Month, this is an ideal moment to explore the ancestral histories of the land where you live. For instance, here in Chicago, I am privileged to live on the traditional homelands of multiple tribal nations, including the Kickapoo, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Potawatomi, Myaamia, and Ochethi Sakowin. You can look up the indigenous heritage of your a...
2023-11-08
21 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
The Myaamia Gardeners (Part 1)
In this episode, the Neepwaantiinki team introduces three of the key people who helped launch an era of community-wide revitalization for Myaamia people. Julie Olds, Daryl Baldwin, and David Costa come from all over what is today the United States, bringing different skill sets and life experiences, and together helped create the fertile space of community revitalization that Myaamiaki enjoy today. In this, the first of a two-part episode, the team will share what they learned about the early period of Myaamia revitalization through interviews with each of these amazing cultural leaders.
2023-09-02
17 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
The Myaamia Gardeners (Part 2)
The Neepwaantiinki team continues the story of three key people who helped launch an era of community-wide revitalization for Myaamia people: Julie Olds, Daryl Baldwin, and David Costa. In the second of a two-part episode, the team will share about the evolution of cultural revitalization, the impact of the relationship between Miami University and the Miami Tribe, and talk about their thoughts on what the future holds for Myaamiaki.
2023-09-02
39 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Peekitahaminki ‘Lacrosse’ & Community Revitalization
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 community.
2023-09-02
42 min
DCOMmentaries
BUFFALO DREAMS
Al & Val went to the Buffalo Preserve and sang a little Bill Withers to get through Buffalo Dreams. This flick is a little tough to get through, but the cast is star studded, and this episode is silly.Buffalo Dreams (March 11, 2005)IMDB WikipediaDirected by David Jackson (Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street, Swamp Thing, Nash Bridges, The District, One Tree Hill)Written by Marjorie Schwartz Nielsen (wrote 5 total things, this was the last)Starring: Reiley McClendon as Josh Townsend (Eddie’s M...
2023-05-02
55 min
New Books in Communications
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines popular research methods including digital sour...
2023-02-16
57 min
New Work in Digital Humanities
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines popular research methods including digital sour...
2023-02-16
53 min
New Books in Higher Education
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines popular research methods including digital sour...
2023-02-16
56 min
The Academic Life
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines popular research methods including digital sour...
2023-02-16
56 min
New Books in Education
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula. Taking readers through the process of selecting data, identifying learning outcomes, and determining which tools students will use in the classroom, Guiliano outlines popular research methods including digital sour...
2023-02-16
57 min
Stats + Stories
Myaamia Data and More | Stats + Stories Episode 263
Native communities around the world are looking for ways to maintain their culture and their language. Meanwhile, some colleges and universities in the U.S. are trying to come to terms with the fact that their campuses are located on what were once tribal lands. The Myaamia Center at Miami University is a partnership between the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the university which works to preserve the Myaamia culture and language while also exposing undergraduate and graduate students to those efforts. The Center's work is the focus of this episode of stats and stories with guest Haley Shea. Haley...
2023-02-02
26 min
You Are A Big Deal with Becca Jay
11. Ludgina Dieujuste: Unapologetic Self, Life-long Fitness & Spreading Positivity
Ludgina Dieujuste (she/her) is a mom of 3, Jesus-lover, and a proud military spouse. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is a Speech Language Pathologist. Ludgina has been running for 23 years and ran her first race after 10 years of running. She directed two 5ks that raised over $15k for families in need. She is an RRCA Certified Running Coach and a treadmill expert with a popular YouTube channel, Treadchic, that has a variety of free treadmill workouts for every level. Ludgina is a health and wellness fanatic, excited about getting others to move their bodies and r...
2023-01-01
54 min
Major Insight
A Revitalization of Knowing, Speaking, and Being
Gretchen Spenn is highly involved in the academic and cultural sides of campus life. As a Kinesiology and Nutrition major, she combines her interests in sport and physical activity with a deeper understanding of how nutritional needs change as we grow and age. Gretchen is also a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, which is commemorating a 50-year-long partnership with Miami University this year. Her work is helping to strengthen the relationship between the two Miamis by promoting the language, culture, knowledge, and values of the Myaamia people. Featured Majors: Kinesiology, Nutrition Featured Organizations: Myaamia Center, N...
2022-05-23
26 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
Awakening a Sleeping Language
In this episode, Kara, Kristina, and George discuss the paradox of speaking their language, one that many have labeled “extinct.” They begin by talking about how Myaamiaataweenki ‘Miami language’ became dormant and then tell the story of the revitalization of the language from documentation over the past thirty years. This episode dives into the close collaboration between the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Myaamia Center, which led to the creation of the educational structures that are supporting the Myaamia community today.
2022-03-29
59 min
Leadership and Legacy: Conversations at the George Washington Presidential Library
211. Revitalizing Myaamia Language and Culture with George Ironstrack (Summer Repeat)
In the eighteenth century, the Myaamia people inhabited what are now parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. More commonly known in English as the Miami, the Myaamia figure prominently in the early history of the United States, especially in the 1790s, when war chief Mihšihkinaahkwa (or Little Turtle) co-led an alliance of Miami and Shawnee warriors that defeated successive American armies in the Ohio valley before meeting defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. In the battle’s wake, through treaty and subterfuge, Americans dispossessed the Myaamia of their lands, removing them first to Kansas in the mid...
2021-09-23
1h 11
High Tales of History
Thocmetony (Sarah Winnemucca) Northern Paiute Educator and Author; The Heartwarming True Story of Winnie the Pooh
Welcome back! We're one episode away from TEN! As usual, we've got a spot saved for you, however, this time KT insists that it will be her lap... We start with Laurel's story about Thocmetony, later named Sarah Winnemucca, who was a Northern Paiute educator, author and advocate for her people. She lived a hard life walking between two worlds with critics on both sides. After leaving Western America in the 1800s, KT takes us north to Canada and then to England during World War I where we learn the heartwarming story of the real Win...
2021-09-10
43 min
The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast
Decolonizing Breathwork with Christian Totty
In this episode I talk with Christian Totty (she/her) from LOAM Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine about working with the breath as it relates to liberation and decolonization. Christian is of Black and Cusabo ancestry. She was born, raised, and currently resides on the traditional homelands of Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee) and Myaamia (Miami) relatives in the NW Ohio region. This episode's community shoutout goes to the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Resources mentioned during our conversation include: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor and Decolonization is Not a Metaphor by Ev...
2021-08-22
33 min
Camden Art Audio
Earth and World: Echo-making: Where the Whistles Mingle
On March 20th, 1980, Mount St. Helens (traditionally known as Lawetlat'la or Loowit) erupted. Rocks boiled, rivers evaporated into clouds, and Spirit Lake—a site connected with Indigenous whistling spirits known as Tsiatko—was smothered under a blanket of pyrolized trees. As part of a continuing series of works under the "Echomaking" umbrella, in this audio essay, Kristen Gallerneaux (Métis-Wendat) uncovers the sonic, material, and poetic resonances connected to this story. She will focus on the contagion effect of folklore born out of cataclysmic events, new mineral formats, and recovering knowledge within charged landscapes affected by geological and ecological trans...
2021-08-10
37 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
A Relationship Takes Root - the Miami Tribe and Miami University
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University have a relationship that stretches back nearly fifty years. How did this unique and successful relationship get its start and who were the key figures who helped make it possible? Join three Myaamia ‘Miami Indian’ graduates of Miami University - Kara Strass, Kristina Fox, and George Ironstrack - as they share the story of this Tribe-University relationship.
2021-03-26
39 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
The Myaamia Student Experience at Miami University
Since 1991, nearly 100 Myaamia ‘Miami Indian’ students have graduated from Miami University, and these graduates have played a huge role in expanding the language and cultural revitalization work of the Myaamia community. What is it like to be a Myaamia student at Miami University, and how has this experience changed over the years? Kara, Kristina, and George our joined by their relative and fellow MU graduate, Ian Young, to talk about the Myaamia student experience at Miami University.
2021-03-26
54 min
Neepwaantiinki: Stories from Myaamia Revitalization
A Brief History of Myaamiaki 'the Downstream People'
The Miami Tribe’s historical homeland is centered in the Wabash River Valley in what is today Indiana. How did the tribe end up in Oklahoma, and how did this history affect Myaamia ‘Miami Indian’ people and their lifeways? Kara, Kristina, and George walk through the Tribe’s history of forced removals, land loss, and population fragmentation and discuss the impact that these changes had on their people.
2021-03-26
1h 00
Leadership and Legacy: Conversations at the George Washington Presidential Library
179. Revitalizing Myaamia Language and Culture with George Ironstrack
In the eighteenth century, the Myaamia people inhabited what are now parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. More commonly known in English as the Miami, the Myaamia figure prominently in the early history of the United States, especially in the 1790s, when war chief Mihšihkinaahkwa (or Little Turtle) co-led an alliance of Miami and Shawnee warriors that defeated successive American armies in the Ohio valley before meeting defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. In the battle’s wake, through treaty and subterfuge, Americans dispossessed the Myaamia of their lands, removing them first to Kan...
2020-10-08
1h 11