A piece of land in Butler County once again belongs to the Miami people. Three Valley Conservation Trust has completed a land transfer to the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
“It’s hard to put into words how special that is,” says Kara Strass, director of Miami Tribe Relations at the Myaamia Center at Miami University, tells WVXU. “It feels like it’s kind of allowing us to heal a little bit from the trauma of of forced removal and everything that’s happened since that time.”
The tribe was forcibly removed to Oklahoma from its traditional homelands in Ohio and Indiana from 1795 to 1846…