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The article focuses on the efforts of the Ohio State University (OSU) to foster an environment that feels like home for Native American students. It provides a historical background on the Miami Indians of Ohio. It also mentions efforts of OSU to build cultural presence on campus including tribal prayers during construction of buildings, intentional effort to hire faculty and staff who represent surrounding tribes, and partnerships with Urban Indian centers and reservation tribal community.

The article discusses the Myaamia Project at Miami University in Ohio, a partnership among David Costa, who discovered extensive written Myaamia writings while doing his doctoral dissertation, project director Daryl Baldwin, who is descended from Miami tribal members, and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. It notes that most of the American Indians were removed from Ohio under the U.S. Indian Removal Act and that the Myaamia language was declared dead in the 1960s but is being revived by the project.