#Myaamia

[moonlightcookie]

The Myaamia (Miami Nation) of Indiana needs your help to restore a Native American historical site

for those of us who are also tired of the way this country is going, please keep our natives in your thoughts. supporting the land back movement and any education about and any aid to indigenous peoples are great first steps to realizing a better change for this land and its people.

the myaamia tribe has recently been given a $25,000 grant, that requires the tribe to also pay $25,000 to match. these funds are being used to restore their complex, built in 1938 and a previous school.

they have already met the $25k requirement, but their goal is $100,000 and they have already met $71,000, and can even still be matched by the Indiana DNR, giving them more help! their gfm listed below:

[ferretly]

does anyone want this book?

I found it at an old book sale here. they were just gonna throw it out.

"myaamia neehi peewaalia aacimoona neehi aalhsoohkaama: Myaamia and Peoria Narratives and Winter Stories", ed. and transl. by David J. Costa.

it's a bilingual edition made for those trying to further or start learning the Miami-Illinois language.

I'll give it to anyone for free (and I'll pay for shipping)! just message me. : )

[jeannereames]

Daryl Baldwin has worked for decades on the recovery of Myaamiaataweenki, the language of the Miami (and Illinois), or Myaamia and Illiniwek. (These are different nations, but the language is a dialect continuum.)

[hotcuppacocoa]

gotta appreciate the fact there’s a myaamia language dictionary online :)

[headspace-hotel]

i'm discovering the sublime joys of natural plant fibers. literally don't know how to knit or crochet or anything and barely know how to sew but extracting and spinning fibers is apparently like the golden ratio of physical and mental activities for me. It's so much fun I will lose hours at a time just HONED in on my yarn and stuff.

Milkweed is so awesome as a plant oh my god. It produces ultra-soft seed fluffs that apparently can be spun if you're careful, the fibers are so smooth they can easily pull apart but making three strands and spinning them into a three-ply yarn seems promising, seems like it would be strong enough to work with. The seed fluffs were historically used widely as stuffing for jackets and pillows and the like, which they are amazing for. Milkweed fluff is way warmer than wool apparently? And on top of it, it has this gorgeous silky sheen. It's SO pretty and it's SO soft.

But the milkweed stems also have bast fiber which is very strong and is obtained by taking the dead stems and beating the crap out of them until the woody stuff is all broken and the fibers separate. This stuff is strong and soft and also has a nice sheen to it and I'm excited to see what could be made from it

Altogether it's a shit ton of usable material per plant, all of which is harvested after the plant dies back for the winter, not affecting its ability to regrow the next spring. With common milkweed, the stems can be greater than 6ft tall and the seed pods are big and each containing a lot of fluff. I filled a whole plastic grocery bag with seed pods, easy, just by walking through a field with lots of milkweed.

Apparently an old common name for milkweed is "wild cotton" which strongly suggests that the seed fluffs have been used for textile purposes

I've also learned from browsing foraging sites, the Myaamia ethnobotanical database and various books that Milkweed has an insane amount of culinary uses. It must be cooked because of the poisons in it that discourage munching by predators, but you can eat the leaves, the flowers, the underdeveloped seed pods (apparently they are compared to cheese?! And the flowers color drinks pink??)

like whoa! so much benefit from one single plant!

I'm working with Dogbane (Apocynonum cannabinum) bast fibers right now and they're sooooo great. Not only is beating the fibers a ton of fun, the fibers are a really beautiful shiny chestnut-blonde sort of color and very strong and fine and soft.

Dogbane fibers also have this lovely fragrance that is like a blend of cedar and forest soil and old books. Milkweed has its own distinct fragrance, very subtle, that I struggle to describe and don't like as much, but it's cool to notice that it has a smell.

[marxism-transgenderism]

I was tagged by @mithli to post some of the books I read this year. P sure it's supposed to be top 10 best but I only read 7 lol. Gonna talk about them more under the cut cause I wanna

I tag @cyanociitta @aspoopalypse @lesbianbrad @post-brahminism @killyfromblame @deadryn and anyone else who wants to do it just say I tagged you and do it !!! And idc if you've only even read one book this year tell us about it !!

Autumn of the Black Snake was a very good history of the wars between the US and the Indigenous confederacy in the Ohio River valley in the 1790s. It had some issues I could get into but as far as most settler-written histories this was one of the best. It did a very good job of breathing life into the figures and really diving into the personal schemes which motivated colonialism here

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest was an absolutely incredible book going over mountains of evidence to show to high amount of prosperity of Indigenous nations here and how the the theft of that wealth function on a small and large scale. It's very academic and also got its issues but cannot recommend it enough

Hoosiers was actually the first book I read when I started this and is partially what motivated me to keep ready cause fuck does this thing suck. Like it's not terrible and gave a good intro to the early colonization of what is now Indiana but then it just ignores the brutality it described to talk about how cool and awesome the US system of settlement is and then drops any talk of Indigenous people after like 1812. My hope is to rip it to shreds one day with what I've learned

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is always a classic. I've had to return to this book a lot over the years and it still holds up. I do wish it touched more on the the history here other than Tecumseh but I get why it didn't. Please read this fucking book

Contested Territories is one I need to return to cause I read it too early into my research and did not have the context to grab all its details. It's a collection of modern research on the lower great lakes and had some great stuff but a lot I'll need to reevaluate now that I know more

myaamiaki aancihsaaciki isn't really a book but I'm counting it anyway. It's a summary of the removal route of the Myaamia to Oklahoma and a collection of primary sources about the removal. It's a excellent resource and there's a free pdf of the Miami Tribe of Oklahomas website

Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology is one I've only just started but so far its excellent. It's like the foundational work for the moden academic study of settler colonialism so it's cited in like everything I've read

[whencyclopedia]

People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

A stereotype in past research toward Native American history is that Native American communities had simple and primitive cultures and were mostly 'reactors' to European colonialism. Robert Michael Morrissey, in People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America, defies this obsolete research approach and puts the indigenous communities at the center of his work. He connects North America's century-long environmental changes with the cultures, conflicts, and trade relationships of the communities around the Illinois River Valley, focusing especially on the Illinois, Meskwaki, and Myaamia. Zeroing in on how bison hunting significantly influenced these communities' histories from the 13th century to the Fox Wars, Morrissey attempts, and succeeds, at drawing a historical map of human-nonhuman interactions that reflects the complexity of Native American cultures.

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[interstellarstorms]

I have a genuine question if anyone can help me.

I’m living on settled land (US). I hate that I’m living on someone else’s land (Whose Land says it belongs to Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), Peoria, Myaamia, Kaskaskia, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) and I have none of that ancestry) But when we give the land back to the indigenous, where will I belong? I’m a mixture of many nationalities, also biracial (white + Asian) but I’ve only ever lived in colonized land, which I have no issue forfeiting to the people it belongs to, however I don’t know where in this situation I would go in order to not end up taking a different person’s land. Would I be best going to Europe or Asia to one of the nations I have ancestry in like Vietnam, Poland, or Scotland? I do have a small amount of Blackfeet ancestry traceable on my father’s side but I don’t want to use that as an excuse to take land that doesn’t belong to me in North America. I have never even visited the land where the Blackfeet people have been forced to live now and while my heart hurts for them I know that I am incredibly much more the colonizer in terms of my position. It would be ethically wrong to take from them what little they have been allotted. Especially if there is a land to which I have more right to live on.

Again: I am in full and wholehearted support of land back. I just don’t want to move somewhere where I’m essentially going to be doing the same thing to another indigenous population.

[giannic]

Miami isn't only the name of a city in South Florida. It's originally a people, a culture, a language.

[mikunziv]

Rebecca Nagle speaks on tribal sovereignty, importance of Native representation

The lecture was hosted by Miami University's Western Center for Social Impact and Innovation in collaboration with the Myaamia Center.

[studylifeusa]

🇺🇸 Get the quintessential U.S. university experience at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Founded in 1809, Miami University bears the name of the Myaamia people whose homelands are here in the Miami Valley. The university maintains a strong reciprocal relationship with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma grounded in our shared commitment to learning and each other.

Modern resources intersect with classic architecture on a beautiful campus defined by faculty-student interaction, experiential learning, and robust student life. 📚

Learn more: https://bit.ly/MiamiUniversity

[fluffheads-travels]

Evanston, IL (Peoria, Potowatomi, Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Oceti Sakowin, Kiikaapoi) - lake time So lucky to be able to spend time with Lake Michigan/michi gami, and with my dear Brennan! It is hard & feels complicated being away from home on this particular weekend in October, but sacred time in a sacred place made it easier. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjlRyldp7GO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[socscilearn]

Interesting detail of the Myaamia Indigenous peoples who were present at Great Peace of 1701! #SocSciLEARN both Elementary and Secondary courses. https://t.co/muCkWHzNur Posted by @paulrombo

[jeannereames]

Hello Dr. Reames! Thank you so much for all the great answers here on tumblr! If you don’t mind sharing, could you tell us what other historical periods/figures you like, outside your area of specialty? Those that you don’t work with, but like to read about

There are several other ancient figures who intrigue me, but those are still in my wheelhouse. Ergo, I’ll focus on a couple of people/eras that are not in the ancient (Eurasian) world.

First, and this is a personal (family) interest: Mihshihkinaáhkwa, or Little Turtle. His name actually means ‘Painted Terrapin’ but apparently the French can’t handle complexity. He’s the best American Indian general you’ve never heard of before.

He was war chief (eteesiah) and civil chief (akima) of the Myaamia (Miami) Indians, architect of St. Clair’s Defeat/Battle of the Wabashiki, the biggest loss (proportionally) the US army ever suffered (anywhere). Later, he agreed to peace with the US, as he didn’t think the nation could continue to block American expansion west. Americans were a bit like Rome: just kept coming back, even if you beat them the first time.

Later, he refused to support Tecumseh’s war, in part because of the Treaty of Greenville, but he didn’t trust their British allies or Tecumseh’s brother, The Prophet—but also (quite possibly) for ego reasons. He wasn’t in charge. Ha. It’s an interesting “What if?” to me—what if the Great Lakes tribes had all united to form a blockade, instead of breaking down into old factions? My mother’s family (Brouillettes and Richardvilles) are related (collaterally) to Mihshihkinaáhkwa via his sister.

I’m also fascinated by two ancient American groups. One is Teotihuacan (same area the Aztecs and Toltecs would control later). The other is Cohokia, on the Illinois side of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, where St. Louis is today (on the Missouri side). Cahokia is absolutely fascinating. I teach both these cultures (along with the Maya, Snake Town and the SW cultures) in World History, so I know a little about them. I’ve been to Cahokia several times (it’s North America’s “Rome,” in terms of size and scope of trade control), and when it collapsed, at least some of the people in the area stayed and united with the Myaamia and Illiniwek peoples arriving later from the Ohio River Valley area. One of the tribes of the Illiniwek was, in fact, called the Cahokia. (Illiniwek are cousins to the Myaamia. Illinois is derived from Illiniwe.)

I also enjoy the history of some cities, such as New Orleans, Savannah—and Omaha, for that matter. When I moved here, I had no idea what an interesting history this place had.

Last, one of my very first attempts to write historical fiction, back when I was in high school and editor of the literary magazine there, involved the Marquis de Lafayette. It was a very cheesy, quasi-self-insert about a girl who wanted to fight in the Revolution, so disguised herself as a boy. She wound up an attaché to Lafayette. I don’t even remember now how it ended (probably in a love story), but I’d researched him for a school project, then wrote the story. It won first prize! But you have to understand the competition—a bunch of other high school kids. LOL

I haven’t studied Lafayette since, but admit I got a kick out of it when he popped up in the musical, Hamilton.

[rockymountainbeeplant]

Meehkweelintamankwi Aanchsahaaciki

‘Remembering Our Forced Removal’

October 2021 will mark 175 years since this momentous and tragic event began on October 6, 1846. The 1846 removal took nearly a month to complete, but the impacts of removal continue to be felt by all Myaamiaki no matter where we live today. Meehkweelintamankwi Aanchsahaaciki ‘Remembering Our Forced Removal’, a year of remembrance and commemoration, will begin during our Winter Gathering at Home event (February 12-13, 2021) and will continue with monthly activities through February 2022.

[endasogiizhik]

“Lake” in eight Central Algonquian languages: mbes (Potawatomi), nbis (Odawa), nepēhsaeh (Menominee), nipihsi (Myaamia), nepithi (Sauk), shakaihkan (Innu), zaaga’igan (Ojibwe), sâkâhikan (Plains Cree)