Miami language practices, but rather the meta-issue that the story needs to be told at all. It represents a series of findings that, although largely selfevident, challenge a common discourse in which American Indian cultures and languages are frozen in the past and are authentic only if unchanged relative to some perceived norm associated with their past. Because of this discourse, the present story becomes even more anomalous than it might otherwise be. Miami, an Algonquian language indigenous to Indiana and claimed by a contemporary population of several thousand people, has been termed “extinct” in widely consulted sources such as the Ethnologue. However, myaamia continues to exist in the linguistic repertoire of the Miami people.

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