The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University’s IT services partnered to develop a platform aimed at restoring the tribe’s dormant language. Now it is helping other tribal communities unearth their own ‘sleeping’ languages.
Native Californian tribes never "lost" their tribal languages. In fact, they've tried desperately to preserve them and bring them back into more widespread use despite attempts by Western culture to suppress them. Here's a look at the progress some tribal groups have made in bringing Indigenous languages out of dormancy.
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Baldwin is executive director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University, where he has been a driving force behind the center for decades as a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.