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Originally posted by mu_agd
well, the founders of Miami and the Miami Indian Tribe came up with that together. There is a whole written document signed by them in which the Miami Indians gave there permission and support to use that. The symbol and the name had been used to signify the ties that the school had with the tribe. To this day Miami University and the Miami Indian Tribe are very close with exchange programs happening all the time.
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Well, former Slaves would have probably jumped at the opportunity to recieve money for their land and other naming rights, anything to compensate them.
To me it depends on the time that this written document was written and this 'exchange' was brokered. If this agreement was entered into during the time when other tribes were being slaughtered in the West then it takes on the appearance of the Miami tribe taking the lesser of two evils and recieving compenstation for their land as opposed to facing annhilation.
But i don't know, i'm not a historian of the tribes of that area, nor do i claim to be. I'm merely saying that attitudes of tribes at the time of treaty signing could be completely different that tribal attitudes today.
Kitso
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