The Cultural Heritage Center is one of tribal members’ favorite places to visit during Festival. Visitors will be in for a treat as they will see the many changes that have taken place during the past year and get a preview of what is to come. We sat down with CHC Director Kelli Mosteller, Ph.D., to learn more about what we can Read More »
Bozho,The CPN Veterans Organization has been very busy with color guard and honor guard events while planning for the June Festival and July Gathering for this year. One project that David Barrett and I have worked on is the new veterans’ t-shirt that will be available at both events. Included in this report is a picture of that new t-shirt. The eagle on the front Read More »
If you live in Oklahoma, you have probably heard the tagline, “Is this a great state or what?” for the better part of 25 years thanks to News Channel 4’s Galen Culver. Culver produces television segments that feature unique small town people, places, stories and celebrations. I use this tagline to emphasize that Oklahoma is a great state to call home. With 39 tribal Nations in Read More »
Summertime is here and school is out, but the students participating in the PLACE program continue to learn skills and about Native American culture. This June, the tribal youth will learn to experience several aspects of life. With Family Reunion Festival coming up in June and Gathering of Potawatomi Nations in July, the youth were taught powwow etiquette, as they will be volunteering during these events. Read More »
In the more than four decades since the first Potawatomi Intertribal Powwow took place, many a June headline have been written welcoming Citizen Potawatomi home to Shawnee. It has been written in many incarnations, but this year marks the first front page headline written in Potawatomi. It’s a rough translation, but the spirit is the same in the tribe’s native tongue in saying “Welcome to your Read More »
Since 1972, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, or as it was known until 1996, the Citizen Band Potawatomi, have hosted a late-June celebration of Native American culture. The inception of what was then an intertribal powwow and general council meeting started off as a way to enhance Native traditions amongst Potawatomi and address the governmental business of the tribe. The tribal government’s newspaper, this publication, has chronicled the Read More »
Earth Day has become a seminal event around the world, with April 22, 2016 marking the 46th anniversary of the movement that channels efforts towards environmental issues. Tribal nations are amongst the country’s foremost leaders in many Earth Day activities given their unique responsibilities as sovereign entities. Citizen Potawatomi Nation is no different in that Read More »
Students from the CPN Child Development Center took first place for their performance of the Potawatomi Morning Song at the Oklahoma Native American Language Fair hosted by the Sam Noble Museum and the University of Oklahoma. For the past four years the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Child Development Center staff has sent one of their classes to the event. In the first year they went CPN Read More »
The following article was originally run on www.Vype.com by author Brad Heath. It is reprinted here with their express written permission. Tecumseh High School junior Kylie Stewart is making a difference in her local community and around the world. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a student at Tecumseh High School, Kylie Stewart has felt a responsibility to her tribe and her Read More »
By Bree Dunham, CPN Eagle Aviary The weather finally feels like spring here in Oklahoma. All the birds at the aviary seem to know that winter has completely given way and that we have surely seen our last frost of the season. The ruby-throated hummingbirds arrived the first week of April and there are scissor-tailed flycatchers perched in pairs along the highline wires lining the Read More »