Chautauqua-Wawasee Sets Second Program About The Myaamia For Sept. 7
August 23, 2024 at 6:11 p.m.
SYRACUSE – Chautauqua-Wawasee is offering a second program to learn more about the Myaamia people and culture Sept. 7.
The Myaamia community is more than just street names and artifacts. They are a contemporary people whose history has shaped many lives in Indiana, according to a news release from Chautauqua-Wawasee.
Historian Cam Shriver will talk about the fight against the Myaamia nation’s removal from their Indiana homelands, and what it was like for the many families who remained in the state.
Shriver, senior research associate at the Myaamia Center, works on Indigenous history, with an emphasis on the Myaamia experience of the last four centuries. Most recently, his research has investigated histories of colonial and Native American education, and the legal and social history of Myaamia allotments.
Shriver’s research emerged from ongoing conversations with the community and the Miami Tribe’s Cultural Resources Office. In addition to various courses in early American history, Shriver frequently teaches Introduction to the Miami Tribe at Miami University.
This program runs from 10 a.m. until noon Sept. 7 outdoors at WACF’s Ruddell Pavilion south of Syracuse at 11586 N. Ind. 13. This is a free event.
More information may be found at www.chqw.org or on the Chautauqua-Wawasee Facebook site or call Debbie at 574-377-7543 for information.
SYRACUSE – Chautauqua-Wawasee is offering a second program to learn more about the Myaamia people and culture Sept. 7.
The Myaamia community is more than just street names and artifacts. They are a contemporary people whose history has shaped many lives in Indiana, according to a news release from Chautauqua-Wawasee.
Historian Cam Shriver will talk about the fight against the Myaamia nation’s removal from their Indiana homelands, and what it was like for the many families who remained in the state.
Shriver, senior research associate at the Myaamia Center, works on Indigenous history, with an emphasis on the Myaamia experience of the last four centuries. Most recently, his research has investigated histories of colonial and Native American education, and the legal and social history of Myaamia allotments.
Shriver’s research emerged from ongoing conversations with the community and the Miami Tribe’s Cultural Resources Office. In addition to various courses in early American history, Shriver frequently teaches Introduction to the Miami Tribe at Miami University.
This program runs from 10 a.m. until noon Sept. 7 outdoors at WACF’s Ruddell Pavilion south of Syracuse at 11586 N. Ind. 13. This is a free event.
More information may be found at www.chqw.org or on the Chautauqua-Wawasee Facebook site or call Debbie at 574-377-7543 for information.