Our People Believe in Education
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Author_Cameron M. Shriver
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cultural revitalization
decolonization
DEI in education
Dislocation
Education
Education and society
education history
educational leadership
educational policy
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Ethnohistory
higher education
higher education administration
Indian country
Indiana history
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous education
Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Tradition
language revitalization
Myaamia history
Native American academics
Native American education
Native American History
Native American history education
Native American studies
Native studies
Ohio history
Oklahoma history
Settler Colonialism
social justice
tribal leadership
Product details
- ISBN 9781496237798
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Across the United States, many institutions are striving to acknowledge and repair oppressive pasts and unequal presents, even as Indigenous communities are struggling to reclaim and revitalize the philosophies and knowledges of their elders. Our People Believe in Education explores the stories of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University to show how two organizations with almost nothing in common, aside from the name Miami, have collaborated to support Indigenous language and cultural revitalization. Founded in 1809, Miami University is a midsize public university in Oxford, Ohio, on land that once belonged to the Miami Tribe. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma was, like many tribal nations, forcibly removed from its homelands and is now headquartered in northeast Oklahoma.
Cameron M. Shriver and Bobbe Burke provide a reflective examination of why a relationship developed between the two entities despite significant geographical and ideological hurdles, and how that partnership has evolved since 1972, when Myaamia chief Forest Olds first visited Miami’s university campus in his nation’s homeland. This intimate history of a tribe and a university struggling to reconcile colonial education with Indigenous survival offers a jumping-off point for new conversations in, and between, these two spheres.
Cameron M. Shriver and Bobbe Burke provide a reflective examination of why a relationship developed between the two entities despite significant geographical and ideological hurdles, and how that partnership has evolved since 1972, when Myaamia chief Forest Olds first visited Miami’s university campus in his nation’s homeland. This intimate history of a tribe and a university struggling to reconcile colonial education with Indigenous survival offers a jumping-off point for new conversations in, and between, these two spheres.
Cameron M. Shriver is a senior research associate at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. Bobbe Burke is the Miami tribe relations coordinator emerita at the Myaamia Center at Miami University.
