Myaamia Heritage Program News Today

This bill is an act to silence and dictate the lives of students like me, Catherine Less, one of more than 100 Ohio college students who testified against Senate Bill 83, writes.

Chants of “S.B. 83 bans my degree” echoed outside Miami University’s Armstrong Student Center on Monday as students, faculty and staff waved signs, passed out flyers and called state senators to protest Ohio’s Senate Bill 83 and House Bill 151.

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."

Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.

Our languages help make us whole. When we empower our cultural selves through speaking our languages, we begin to undo the damage caused by years of cultural and linguistic oppression.

Our languages help make us whole. When we empower our cultural selves through speaking our languages, we begin to undo the damage caused by years of cultural and linguistic oppression.