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In 2024, friends of the Miami Nation of Indiana created the Honor Fund. The Honor Fund is based on Indigenous land tax programs across the country, which materially repair the long history of harm caused by colonization and support Indigenous efforts to sustain community and culture for generations to come.

The two most important ways to show solidarity with the Miami of Indiana are to contribute financial resources and to return Miami land.

When to contribute to the Honor Fund

• The Honor Fund encourages individuals who live or work on Miami lands to make a recurring donation to the Honor Fund. The Honor Fund also encourages you to mobilize resources from within your community (For training/information on how to fundraise, see Donor Organizer Hub).

• The Honor Fund encourages companies, institutions, and organizations operating on Miami lands to adopt an institutional land acknowledgment, make an annual donation to the Honor Fund, and share information with employees and/or members about the Honor Fund.

• The Honor Fund encourages those organizing events on Miami lands to make a one-time donation. Guidance about how to share information with participants (both local and visiting) is available on the Honor Fund website.

Contribute to our General Fund to Impact Multiple Areas

Another way you can choose support the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana is through a one time or reoccurring gift to the Tribe. By donating through the Stripe link below, your donation will go to MNI’s general fund. This will allow the Tribe to utilize your gift where it is most needed at the time as well as allow us to utilize your gift to support multiple projects ranging from protecting our culture and heritage, sharing our culture and history with others, maintaining our properties, hosting our annual Gathering, and more!

Support our Historic Properties and Ancestral Lands

A specific project you can donate to is our fund designated for the restoration and maintaining of our properties and historic buildings. Our tribal complex is on the National Historic Registry and was originally the Peru Indiana high school that is home to the Tig Arena. The building was originally built in 1938-1939 and the Tribe took possession of it in the 1990s. We also have our historic Chief Meshingomesia schoolhouse located in Jalapa Indiana on the original site of the Chief’s reserve. It is the original school house built by the Chief around 1860 that was reclaimed, restored, moved back to its original location, and put on the National Historic Registry in the late 1990s. We also have land in Parke county Indiana that was once a Miami of Indiana reserve that was gifted back to the Tribe. It is where we hold our annual Gathering each summer in early June. Your gift to this fund via our GoFundMe page will support the restoration and maintenance of our current properties as well as funds for possible future acquisitions of our ancestral lands!