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GEORGE MICHAEL IRONSTRACK
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Education and Certification
M.A. in Origins and History of the United States, Miami University, graduated in August 2006.
B.A. in the Teaching of History for Secondary Education, The University of Illinois Chicago, graduated in
2000.
Type 09 Certification from the Illinois State Board of Education with endorsements in: Anthropology (High
School), U. S. History (High School), and World History (High School).
Experience in Education and Related Fields
2013 – Present • Miami University – Myaamia Center • Assistant Director and Program Director Education and
Outreach Office.
2008 – 2013 • Miami University – Myaamia Project • Assistant Director and Education Coordinator.
2006 – Present • Myaamia Heritage Museum & Archive Board of Directors • Governing body of the Miami
Tribe of Oklahoma’s Museum and Archive.
2005 – Present • Miami Tribe of Oklahoma • Planning assistant and assistant coordinator for Eewansapita
Summer Educational Experience. Helped to develop the curriculum for an annual children’s language
and culture education program and aided in the coordination of program counselors during the course of
the week long camp.
2007 – 2008 • Lindblom Math & Science Academy (Chicago Public Schools) Full Time Teacher: Honors
World Studies and Honors U.S. History.
2004 – 2006 • Miami University • Graduate Assistant for American Studies 105 Sovereign Stories: a Film
Series Exploring Contemporary Native America • Graduate Assistant for World History to 1500 and
World History 1500 to Present.
2001 – 2003 • Northside College Preparatory High School (Chicago Public Schools) Full Time Teacher: Honors
World Studies, Honors Psychology, Consumer Education, and a yearlong colloquium on the History of
WWII.
2005 – Miami Tribe of Oklahoma • National Museum of the American Indian Virtual Museum Workshop •
Counselor for a group of Miami youth working with Smithsonian staff to create a virtual museum of
Miami objects at the Smithsonian.
2003 – 2004 • Simon Says Language Institute • Madrid, Spain • Taught English to adult professionals working
for the Amena and Auna group.
2002 – 2003 • Northside College Preparatory High School • Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach (2003), Assistant
Men’s Lacrosse Coach (2002).
2001 – Day-to-day substitute at William Howard Taft High School
1995 – 2004 • Miami Nation of Indiana Inc.• Assistant coordinator of language programs. Helped to plan and
run activities involving Miami Indian language and culture for Miami Indian children and adults who
attended the week long annual program.
Publications
• Forthcoming – “nahi meehtohseeniwinki: iilinweeyankwi neehi iši meehtohseeniwiyankwi aatotamankwi
To Live Well: Our Language and Our Lives.” To be published in Beyond Two Worlds eds. C. Joe GenetinPilawa and Jim J. Buss.
• 2009 – “Myaamiaki neehi Myaamionki (The Miami People and Their Homelands): Experiences with
Resistance and Change.” Published in Miami University, 1809-2009: Bicentennial Perspectives ed. Curtis W.
Ellison.
• 2008 – “alikalakonci wiipicahkionki: Beyond the Place of Flint.” Co-authored with Scott Shoemaker and
published in American Indian Places ed. Francis Kennedy (2008).
Presentations and Papers
• 2012 – Elkhart County Indiana Historical Society: Myaamia Renewal.
• 2012 – Oxford Lane Public Library: The Experience of the Miami People during the War of 1812.
• 2012 – Algonquian Conference: Aacimwinki Niimihki Šikaakonki (A Story of a Chicago Fort).
• 2012 – National Center for Great Lakes Native American Culture “Our Hearts are Heavy as the Earth” The
Myaamia (Miami) and the War of 1812.
• 2012 – Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College: Myaamiaki a Living People with a
History.
• 2011 – Algonquian Conference: Nipwaantiikaani Weešikiiyaanki (We are Building a Place of Learning):
Myaamia (Miami) Educational Strategies and Values
• 2011 – Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting: The Myaamia Project: Advancing the Revitalization of
the Miami Tribe's Language and Culture.
• 2011 – Fort Recovery Ohio Historical Site: The Tumultuous Period of the 1780’s through the Treaty of
Greenville – a Myaamia Perspective.
• 2011 – Annual Meeting of the Ohio Local History Alliance: The Myaamia Project: Advancing the
Revitalization of the Miami Tribe's Language and Culture.
• 2008 – Myaamiaki Conference on Myaamia Neepwaantiinki, 'Myaamia Education.' Presentation titled: “I
come from the Miami Schoolhouse, there we say, ‘I teach because I learn.’”
• 2008 – Purdue University Symposium: Indigenous Voices: Weaving Diversity, Knowledge and
Empowerment. Co-Presentation with Andrew Strack titled “Language Reclamation, Community
Education, and the Thoughtful use of Technology as One Tool for Growth.”
• 2006 – Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference on “Warfare and Society in
Colonial North America and the Caribbean.” Paper titled: “We tell You if You are angry We are ready
to receive You”: The Language of Violence in Miami, French, and British Conceptions of Warfare.”
• 2006 – Myaamiaki: A Conference on Current Miami Tribe Scholarship. Paper titled: “From Akima to
Maawikima and Back Again: a Journey Through Miami Indian Leadership.”
• 2006 – Algonquin Languages Conference: Preservation and Reclamation of Indigenous Languages. Copresentation with Wesley Leonard titled “Miami Youth Camp.”
• 2005 – Miami University Department of History – departmental presentation of “Living Life on the Edge”
• 2005 – Lecture for World History 197 – “Facing East from Tenochtitlan: Mexica Perceptions of the Spanish
Invasion”
• 2005 – American Society for Ethnohistory conference on “Centering Lives in Border Spaces.” Paper titled:
“Living Life on the Edge: the Value of Shared Space for the Miami Indian Village of Pickawillany”
• 2005 – Antioch University “Everyday Activism Symposium” presented on “Telling Miami Stories:
Pickawillany/Pinkwi Mihtohseeniaki”
Board and Committee Service
2010 – Present • Ohio Historical Society Board of Trustees • Governing body of the Ohio Historical Society •
Served on the following committees: Education & Outreach and Collections.
2010 – 2015 • State of Ohio War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission • provide leadership, organization, and
coordination in efforts to commemorate the war and its effects.
2006 – Present • Myaamia Heritage Museum & Archive Board of Directors • Governing body of the Miami
Tribe of Oklahoma’s Museum and Archive.
Language Skills
Myaamia - ten years experience with this American Indian language of Algonquian linguistic stock. Functional
speaker and intermediate reader.
Spanish – nine months abroad experience in Madrid, Spain and two years (16 credit hours) college level
experience. Intermediate speaker and upper-intermediate reader
Fellowships and Academic Awards
• Century Fellowship – Teaching Assistantship (combined) – The University of Chicago: Department of History
• Graduate Student Teaching Award – Miami University – College of Arts and Sciences
• Graduate Assistantship Miami University: Department of History 2004-06