Alpha Pi Omega, the First Sorority for Native Women
Published November 15, 2019
Tyler Nicole Miller is a junior double majoring in art history and American Indian studies from Tucson. She is the chapter president of Alpha Pi Omega at ASU and is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, which straddles the Arizona and Mexico borders.
Alpha Pi Omega is the first national sorority for native women, and the ASU chapter has been recognized by their national council because of their academic excellence: They earned the highest GPA of all Alpha Pi Omega chapters nationally last spring and also had the highest GPA of any ASU sorority or fraternity last year.
Miller said such high-level recognition is meaningful to the sisters because of the work they put into their education and community service work and because native students are underrepresented on campus.
“That really means something to us, because we’re representing more than ourselves. We’re representing the communities we come from, our families and the Native American population here, which is highly underrepresented,” Miller said.
After she graduates with her degrees from ASU, Miller is interested in pursuing a law degree to advocate for art restitution in museums and elsewhere “to make sure that we’re represented the way that we want to be represented, not as people of the past.”
Miller sat down with ASU Student Life to tell us more about her Greek life experience at Arizona State University.
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