Katie Lynch has devoted her higher education career to advocating for Indigenous access to health care. She has been honored as a 2025 Champion for Change by the Center for Native Youth of the Aspen Institute.
Chief Justice Angela R. Riley of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court urged Tribal citizens to take an active role in protecting tribal sovereignty. She said Oklahoma tribal Nations have successfully protected and even advanced their inherent sovereignty by being forward-looking and efficiently providing much-needed government services to tribal members and even to non-Native citizens Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation celebrated ribbon cuttings for the new FireLake Casino and FireLake Hotel in June 2025.
The eighth annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival will return to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Festival grounds Aug. 8-9, 2025. The festival offers two days of balloon glows, balloon launches and rides, live music and family friendly entertainment.
The July 2025 Language Update from Justin Neely recaps this summer’s immersion learning program and highlights upcoming offerings.
Cadence Barreda | Anderson Family | she/herSavannah College of Art and Design | Film and Writing What makes a good leader? A good leader is someone who is able to sort through a group’s ideas and use those to create a solution that will benefit the group! What goals do you hope to accomplish through Read More »
Native Americans are up to four times more likely to have their children taken and placed into foster care than their non-Native counterparts.
January was National Stalking Awareness Month, and prevention specialist Kayla Woody hosted three different webinars to both Pleasant Grove Middle School and Shawnee High School classes. The House of Hope partnered with the Stalking Prevention Awareness Resource Center and Community Renewal of Pottawatomie County to provide much-needed information about signs of stalking and ways to prevent stalking.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Christina Foster’s artist portfolio shows her growth and self-discovery gained throughout her education. Much of her work centers around self-exploration and displays both her artistic process and final results.
In this episode, we’ll hear about the history of the Potawatomi census book of 1862 and the Tribe’s efforts to gain ownership, an environmental activists’ stay with CPN during her journey hiking across the U.S. as well as the behavioral health department’s smoking cessation classes.