On March 6 the members of the CPN Legislature met, with no one absent. Following approval of meeting from the December 8, 2016 and January 19, 2017 meetings, several resolutions were approved, including the reapportionment of CPN legislative districts with all members voting in the affirmative. A further update on the redistricting changes will run in an upcoming Hownikan once they go into effect on July 1, Read More »
District 3 incumbent Robert Whistler A familiar face to many in Citizen Potawatomi Nation District 3’s legislative race will be Robert Whistler, who is seeking his third term against challenger Jahn Eric Humphreys for the district of central and east Texas. Whistler was born in Cushing, Oklahoma, but at the age of three the family moved to San Diego, California where he was raised. Read More »
Vieux family member Jennifer Dye and her daughter Irene shared the history and culture of the Citizen Potawatomi people to Irene’s second grade class at Academie Lafayette – a French immersion charter school in Kansas City, Missouri. There, students are taught using the French language in all subjects. Part of the second grade Missouri learning standards include Native American history, so each student in the class was Read More »
To visitors of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Powwow Grounds, the sight of construction cones near a closed off concrete bridge spanning Squirrel Creek is a familiar one. Since 2013 it has been closed to traffic, while the tribe assessed how best to repair and preserve the 67 foot span. Over the next year, the structure will go through various stages of repair as the CPN Read More »
Wadasé Zhabwé, or as she was known then, Penojés, was one of the first eight eagles to call the CPN Eagle Aviary home. Before being mature enough to fledge on her own, she’d fallen out of her nest in Florida in 2012 and was rescued by a good samaritan and taken to the Audubon Center Read More »
Most of Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s 2,400 employees have dealt with the human resources department in one way or another. Whether through new hire orientation, seeking assistance about employment benefits or even to ask for counsel on workplace issues, tribal employees have a department that looks out for employees and their employer while adhering to tribal, federal and state employment statutes. Leading this department for more than a Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s tribal complex falls inside Congressman Steve Russell’s district. The Oklahoma Fifth District representative needed a large venue for his recent town hall, as large numbers were expected to hear from the congressman and give their views on the issues emanating from the nation’s capital. More than 300 attendees filed into the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center for the event, which though animated Read More »
Since first taking the road in 1988, the Potawatomi Trail of Death Caravan has tried to give attendees a small sense of the extensive landscape covered by the Indian Potawatomi on the Trail of Death in 1838. Crossing four states on a forced march lead by American soldiers, the Potawatomi of the time traversed the still largely wild lands of Indian, Illinois, and Missouri before their Read More »
On February 22 the CPN Language Department hosted our fifth annual Winter Storytelling Event at the CPN Cultural Heritage Center. We had over 50 people in attendance. But what was truly unique is for the first time ever we streamed the storytelling event live on Facebook. Traditionally we believe that in the winter time the spirits and the earth is asleep and these Read More »
April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and in order to make a difference in our community, House of Hope Family Violence Program has made the pledge and joined the “Start by Believing” campaign, and we hope you will join as well. This global public awareness campaign is dedicated to transforming the way individuals respond to sexual assault, with the desire to see the cycle of silence Read More »