indianapublicmedia.org/theweek... Join The Weekly Special as we explore Indiana's earliest people, the Miami Nation, to learn more about their heritage and rich cultural preservation.
Ever so se I was a small child, my mother taught us that we were descendants of the Miami People; that our great great grandmother escaped the removal on the 1800s. She taught us that she stayed invisible and kept her identity hidden. Sadly for us she didn’t pass on her tribal and cultural knowledge, but she stayed and was a blessing to our family and our heritage. ♥️🎶🪶 I am grateful that this program was produced.
I don't see the point, as the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma rolls are opened to anyone proving ties to the Miami. So, most of this folks are probably able to enroll in that tribe. I think it's a good idea to do so, as they are a federally recognized tribe. miamination.com/Enrollment
My OK Myaamia husband and I took our grandgirl from SE NC to visit Peru Museum. Then we followed motor trail and Forks of the Wabash museum; Cemetery at Huntington; Indiana Tribe Center. Every single person with whom we came into contact was welcoming and warm and knowledgable. All the stories we had heard were true. My further research has been very rewarding. Hold onto and celebrate your own History. Thank you for this video !
I’ve been in east tennessee since 1980 due my fathers employment moving here, but watching this makes me homesick for my birth home of Fort Wayne Indiana, where I still have cousins . Those were great years !
Thanks. I had not seen this. The old fort has a lot of events throughout the year. Now I've heard there is a new meeting house established south of 469. It would be great to combine a pow wow with a fort event for the purpose of education. The fort has education days and as a reenactor, I've tried to do my part to spread my limited knowledge of the indigenous peoples to the children. This should be a part of their education too.
It's almost as if different tribes have different traditions and ways of doing things because they're not actually all the same. 🤯 Also, it has been diluted, many of the smaller tribes have been whitewashed because of things like the trail of tears and colonization throughout the Native American tribes. It's almost like, that's a well known thing that happened. 🤯 I'm sure you mean well, but so many of these comments are incredibly racist about how "Caucasian" the Miami tribe looks. People really need to educate themselves before just making outlandish comments like this.
I know right hahaha 😂 I see what happened to sami people is also happening to native american people. Being replaced by more and more whiter version generation after generation, until their entirely white with completely europeanized version of the culture and clothing and then the new 10% native 90% white people version will say that the tribe was always white...... Thats what happened to sami and most uralic tribes here in taigas and tundras of so called northern "europe" and you cant even say it openly because some one gets offended. Not long ago it was almost impossible to tell difference between sami people, khanty people, mansi people and nenets. We came from same indigenous people 4000 years ago migrating from siberia and speaked the same language, but now modern sami is so whitened and mixed to norwegians, swedes, finns, russians that most sami are much more swedish/norvegian than sami. Full blooded sami have not even existed in near history and who knows maybe couple full bloods existed 100 years ago somewhere in north. My siberian ancestors native culture may be entirely disappeared and replaced soon because of this whitening epidemic that no one even wants to acknowledge. I feel like I know too and i can't do anything about this issue, because i did not grow up with the culture. Native american people should be little more protective of their heritage and ancestry or they all get replaced by the white $5 copy too. We uralics are perfect warning example of this happening.
@@mktzi7678 all cultures mix over time. that's just how it goes. the only way you can try to prevent that is if everyone in your culture inbreeds and that just isn't healthy. This is how humanity operates.
A dream of mine to visit to Indiana to miami nation. My family is from them. I really want to know more bout them and be part of them. At 9:40 I see something in the sky looking down. Like an animal.
Look me.up of you ever make it out here..I can show you some old Indian.trails & where I used to find arrowheads growing up ( not sure if of the Miami's or Pottawatomie)
Don't know what to say, but nobody knew or wanted to know. I've asked my Dad that is from Southern Indiana and I live in Berlin, Germany and always wondered if there's truth in when I got told that I'm part Indian. Lived there a few years and went back for different reasons and now I this. 👍
No DNA can tell u what tribe. My dads side of my family is native. They live on the Rez but I know nothing of them. I had to dig deep and contact family to find they have ties to Miami. I have always been told I’m native my mother and fathers side both are of the Miami tribe my mothers side just are not into the culture as much as my father. I found the hard way DNA does not give you tribe information.
I wonder what the mound builders ( Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian) who were probably pushed out of Indiana around 1400 by Algonquin or Sioux who fought each other for centuries after for possession of Indiana, would think of the comment that this had always been Miami Land?
"Probably," so mere speculation? The point is that the Miami have always been connected to the land, whereas America, which is a country foreign to the continent and has no connection to the land, has no ethical claim. Colonizers and Indigenous peoples are not the same.
just come out and say it.... they got screwed ! I was born, grew up and to this day live in Kokomo I have absolutely zero native american blood that I can find but if any culture has a right to be Pi&&ed it is them. My wife has "family history" of being related to Little Turtle in some way but the only actual proof I have is one of her great uncles married a full Miami indian but that doesn't effect her.
maybe there was 1 person in the entire tribe with 5% native DNA at most. had me ROFL when they said it was shocking that they are not an officially recognized nation.. might have better luck trading in your buck skin chaps and tomtom drum for lederhosen and an alpine horn.
@Audio who the fuck are you to say such a thing? I could say thee exact same thing about so called african's in this country. Black people in this country after 500 years are at the very least Tri-racial( Black,white,Middle eastern which is another tri-racial group,look up the Muslim slave trade, & also some have Indian blood,as well). they lost their african-ness along time ago...but they can be "legit" today,but these Miami's can not? WTF!! whats good for the goose is good for the gander!
ok ,,,, so y isnt it PUBLIC....????... i am a direct decenddent of CHIEF LITTLE TURTLE......... when i was in fort wayne NOTHING was offered........ they only had three river festival for the natives......... now theres nothing..............
Silly! As a native man who grew up on a Delaware reservation and has been pow wow dancing my whole life. All I can say is that these people look pretty white to me and the way they are running the pow wow is more of a hobbyist gathering then a real native pow wow. the so-called spiritual leader and the head man dancers, stories we're nothing like anything I've ever heard a native spiritual leader or a head dancer speak of before. LOL... sound like new ager white men talking to me. Im not saying that they don't have some Indian blood in them, I don't know, it's not for me to judge. the way they are dancing and drumming is pretty silly to me. Most of the Miami tribe was forced out of Indiana to Oklahoma. It looks to me the ones that were left behind were probably already of mixed blood and over the years have been mixing with more whites. Lol.... more power to them, I say good luck to this heavily white mix of Indians, I hope they can get Federal recognition.
Sounds like Timothy you are one sorry human being,You got a very white name sounds like your full of hate and anger,You may check out meds that could help you or seek Jesus.
Do you mean to tell me that the Miami "Nation" were the first people in Indiana? Before even the "Clovis" people? I say you are wrong. Mistaken, and confused and way, way wrong. I wonder what else you've gotten very wrong? Not a good start.
What's wrong with that? Would you have every race and ethnicity sticking to their own groups? I think it is important to experience and learn about other cultures.
See how they get scared of the truth?? And look how he capitalized "afr*can" They so dumb they really pushing this to no end. Ain't that much greed and hate in this world. Like you said, a bunch of Caucasians and I agree. They also trynna trade places with the ppl they kill and oppress
