Daryl Baldwin, an Indigenous linguist and a reviver of his tribal language, the Myaamia language. An enrolled member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Baldwin has served as a member of the cultural resource advisory committee of the Miami Tribe.
Education
Baldwin received a B.S in 1996 and a M.A in 1999 from the University of Montana with a master's degree in arts with emphasis in Native American linguistics and is now the director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The center works to revitalize endangered languages. His devotion to the work of language revitalization led to the creation of the Myaamia Center at Miami University and his appointment as the director and was chosen in 2016 as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Baldwin seeks to revitalize languages for the people of the community, language and cultural revitalization. After reading a draft of David Costa's thesis on the Miami-Illinois language, Baldwin realized he would need training in linguistics to not only understand Costa's work but also work to revitalize his own language and to teach it to others. The realization led Baldwin to apply for a graduate degree at the University of Montana. Since 1996, Baldwin began to teach himself and his family and four children the Miami language. Baldwin also learned through studies held by the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives.
Linguistic work
Baldwin works with Myaamia people developing culture and language-based educational materials and programs for the community. Baldwin has taught and raised his four children as native speakers of Myaamia and continues to teach others as assistant educational leadership professor. Much of Baldwin's work has been collaborative, contributing to edited collections and journal articles, and he also works with other linguists such as Leanne Hinton's National Breath of Life project, a two-week biennial gathering of linguists sharing, finding and utilizing linguistic archival sources.
Publications
Books
Baldwin, Daryl and Costa, David. 2005. myaamia neehi peewaalia kaloosioni mahsinaakani: A Miami-Peoria Dictionary. Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
Edited Volumes
Baldwin, Daryl, George Ironstrack. 2015. “Mihšihkinaahkwa ”. In Indiana’s 200: The People Who Shaped The Hoosier State. Edited by Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair. Indiana Historical Society Press, Indianapolis.
Baldwin, Daryl. 2014. “oowaaha myaamiaataweenki: Miami Is Spoken Here.” In Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in The United States. Edited by Terrence G. Wiley, Joy Kreeft Peyton, Donna Christian, Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Na Liu. Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London.
Baldwin, Daryl, Karen Baldwin, Jessie Baldwin, Jarrid Baldwin. 2013. Myaamiaataweenki oowaaha: Miami Spoken Here. In: Bringing our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families, Leanne Hinton, Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA.
Warner, S. Mark and Baldwin, Daryl. 2004. Building Ties: The Collaboration between the Miami Nation and Archaeology. In: Places In Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology, Shackel, A., Paul, Chambers, J., Erve,, Routledge, New York and London.
Journal articles
Whalen D.H., Moss M. and Baldwin D. "Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use." F1000Research 2016, 5: 852.
Mosley-Howard, G. Susan, Daryl Baldwin, George Ironstrack, Kate Rousmaniere, Bobbe Burke. 2016. "Niila Myaamia : Identity and Retention of Miami Tribe College Students," In Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. 17 no. 4 : 437–61. Sage Publication, Inc.
McCarty, Teresa L., Daryl Baldwin, George M. Ironstrack, Julie Olds. 2013. "neetawaapantamaanki iilinwiaanki meehkamaanki niiyoonaani: Searching for Our Talk and Finding Ourselves." In Language Planning and Policy in Native America: History, Theory, Praxis. Teresa L. McCarty, Multilingual Matters, Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto.
Baldwin, Daryl and Olds, Julie. 2007. "Miami Indian Language and Cultural Research at Miami University." In Beyond Red Power: New Perspectives on American Indian Politics and Activism. Cobb, M, Daniel and Fowler, Loretta, Sante Fe: School of American Research Press.
Baldwin, Daryl. 2003. Miami language reclamation: from Ground Zero. A lecture presented by the Center for Writing and the Interdisciplinary Minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies. Speaker Series No. 24. University of Minnesota: Center for Writing.
