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ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University is located within the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú people, whose name our university carries, were forcibly removed from these homelands in 1846.

In 1972, a relationship between ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Tribe of Oklahoma began and evolved into a reciprocal partnership, including the creation of the Myaamia Center at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University in 2001. The work of the Myaamia Center serves the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Tribe community and is dedicated to the revitalization of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú language and culture and to restoring that knowledge to the Myaamia people.

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Tribe are proud of this work and of the Myaamia students who have attended ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú since 1991 through the Myaamia Heritage Award Program.

Complete Land Acknowledgment

COMMITTED TO EACH OTHER

The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Art Museum has a close relationship with the Myaamia Center and the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Tribe of Oklahoma, and is engaged in a process of community curation in its exhibitions, programs and collections connected to the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Tribe.