Daryl Baldwin

Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. He was born and raised around the Great Lakes area residing most of his life in Northwest Ohio. He currently lives in Liberty, Indiana with his wife and four children.

Daryl’s forefathers were very active in the affairs of the Miami Nation dating back to the 18th century, and he continues this dedication through his work in language and cultural revitalization. Daryl graduated in 1999 from The University of Montana with a Masters in Arts with emphasis in Native
American linguistics.

Over the last 12 years he has worked with the Miami people developing culture and language based educational materials and programs. Daryl is currently the Director of the Myaamia Project at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Myaamia Project is a joint venture between the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and research Miami Nation history, culture, and language.

Daryl's full list of publications can be read here.

Andrew Strack

Andrew joined the Myaamia Project as Media Specialist in September 2007 after graduating from Miami University with a bachelors' degree in Mass Communication. Andrew is a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma from Kendallville, IN.

Andrew was one of the first students to participate in the classes about Miami Tribe history, culture and contemporary issues that are available to Miami Tribe students at Miami University. In his time as an undergraduate, Andrew made several short videos for the Myaamia Project while participating in independent study projects.

He currently is working on several projects to increase awareness of the Myaamia Project among Miami Tribal members.

Amy Numrich

Amy joined the Myaamia Project staff in May 2007 as the Program Associate for the Office of Miami Tribe Relations and Off-Campus Affairs. She graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature in 2005.

As an undergraduate, Amy interned at and published numerous articles in the Hamilton Journal News. Prior to joining the Myaamia Project she worked in Miami University’s Libraries, lending Miami’s materials to universities across the globe.

Amy is from Fairfield, Ohio, and currently resides in Hamilton, Ohio. She enjoys reading, chess, and scouring Jungle Jim’s for new foods and wines from around the world. She also has an affinity for penguins.

She is currently illustrating a coloring book for the children of the Miami Tribe.

David Costa

Dr. David J. Costa is a contract consultant to the Myaamia Project and also serves on the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma’s language committee. He completed his B.A. in linguistics at UCLA in 1985, and his Ph.D. in linguistics at U.C. Berkeley in 1994 with his dissertation the Miami-Illinois Language. A revised version of his dissertation was published through the University of Nebraska Press in 2003. He has been studying the Miami-Illinois language since 1988, and has worked extensively with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Miami Nation of Indiana on language revitalization since 1995.

Dr. Costa is currently working on a collection of traditional Miami, Wea, and Peoria narratives to be published by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. He is also working on a fully annotated collection of interlinearized Miami-Illinois texts, hopefully to be finished by 2009. Additionally, he is continuing to add to his ongoing etymological dictionary
database of Miami-Illinois.

In addition to his work on Miami-Illinois, Dr. Costa has also done extensive research on the Shawnee language, the Algonquian languages of southern New England, and comparative Algonquian. Dr. Costa is a third-generation northern Californian and lives in El Cerrito, California, with his wife and daughter.

Dr. Costa's full list of publications can be read here.