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Theseobservations grew into a general question about how the language and cultural revitalization process was impacting the tribal community. Thus, a team of researchers was selected to respond to this question. Dr. Susan Mosley-Howard was the Dean of Students at Miami University at the time and a strong ally of the tribal community, with research interests in the success of Myaamia students and more broadly in the success of the Miami Tribe (among other diverse populations). Together with Daryl Baldwin, George Ironstrack, and Drs. Kate Rousmaniere, Joe Shroer, and Tracy Hirata-Edds, Dr. Mosley-Howard began the investigation with the development of a series of specific research questions.

Our goal with collecting this data is first and foremost to provide a better experience for the tribal community in connecting to and engaging with their heritage language and culture. The information we collect serves as a feedback loop that helps the program coordinators to be able to continually improve. We also hope that our work can provide feedback to tribal leadership in order to explain the benefits of the programming and to continue strengthening and growing the educational endeavors the Tribe decides to undertake. Finally, we also hope to share our findings more broadly with the academic community so that other tribal communities can build, shape, and grow their own language and cultural programming.

To date, we have collected data on all four of the outcomes and have identified positive impacts of language and cultural revitalization on each. More information on specific findings can be found in the research briefs and publications on the NAAT website.

We are currently working on many projects in order to continue to grow as a research team and build support for long-term work. We are working on a model of living well to define this concept for Myaamiaki. It is our hope that the narrative surrounding this construct is built by tribal members themselves and will serve to improve living well for all Myaamiaki.

In addition, we are currently working with Computer Science and Software Engineering and Health Information Technology students at Miami University on building a database that is unique to the data that we collect. This will enable us to be much more efficient with our data collection, storage, maintenance, and reporting of any data we collect.

In order to build the physical infrastructure and theoretical background for the NAAT work as well as support future exponential growth as a team, we are also partnering with multiple departments at Miami University. These partnerships include the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness to bolster the data collected regarding our Heritage Students on campus and the Center for Analytics and Data Science to support our analysis of that data. We are also beginning to engage with faculty from the Public Health program at Miami in order to increase our interdisciplinary team as well as to expand our theoretical perspective of Myaamia health. Ultimately, it is our hope that these partnerships will continue to grow and will give us the capacity to be able to meet the growing needs of the Myaamia community.

To summarize, the NAAT was developed as a means to assess the impact that language and cultural revitalization within the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is having on the community as a whole. This work is continually growing with emerging conceptualizations of health for Myaamiaki, new methods of data collection, and new partnerships for added structural support. The NAAT hopes that our work can be a voice for the Myaamia community, so if you have any feedback or questions, feel free to reach out to us via email at na...@miamioh.edu.

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