The Citizen Potawatomi Indian Child Welfare Department has one of the toughest challenges in Indian Country, providing services and interventions on behalf of some of the Tribe’s most in-need citizens. The department’s trials are outmatched by the determination of the staff, a core group of individuals who deal with families and Tribal citizens on some of their worst days. Heading up the Family Preservation Program is Desiree Read More »
Since opening in 2001, FireLake Discount Foods has developed a reputation for being committed to low prices. Although this commitment has served the store well, management believed it was time to build on this strength and provide a better overall experience for staff, vendors and most importantly, customers, by achieving retail excellence in all areas of the business. “We took a look at everything we do. Read More »
This week for Way Back Wednesday we take a look back at two maps showing the history of Oklahoma, and the almost-history of the proposed State of Sequoyah. The tribal map shows the location of many of the tribes that currently reside in the state, while the second shows the proposed names of counties in Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation boasts one of the country’s only digital tribal governments, allowing representatives from across the U.S. to meet via teleconference and conduct legislative meetings in real time. As with all things technological, the time has come for the video and teleconference technology to be upgraded. The Hownikan talked tech with Tribal member and Read More »
Valentine’s Day is getting closer and FireLake Gifts has an array of items for that special someone in your life. If you would like to purchase an item, FireLake Gift Shop has many items like this that can be seen in our store located inside the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center or online at Read More »
Amidst the economic and agricultural slump that hit the Great Plains in the 1920s – long preceding the Great Depression to follow the 1929 stock market crash – a new school of art was forming at the Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The institution, formed to educate Native Americans from across the countryin the place Read More »
Famed Potawatomi artist Woody Crumbo made his name in the art world with his Southwest inspired paintings. Crumbo lived in Taos, New Mexico throughout the majority of his professional career. He, like many other artists, captured what was around him. For the past ten years, a Potawatomi mother and son have been following a similar Read More »
This week we look at a man responsible for chronicling much of what we know about the Potwatomi during the early Removal Period of the 1800s, Englishman George Winter. George Winter was an English-born artist known for his chronicles of 18th century American life and geography. Born June 10, 1809 in Portsea [Portsmouth], England, Winter’s Read More »
The Oklahoma State University Powwow is a student-run public event hosted annually by the OSU Native American Student Association at the Payne County Expo Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Tribes from the entire nation are represented in the diverse inter- tribal powwow. This year, Citizen Potawatomi Nation donated $2,000 to help fund the event and the Read More »
I had a pleasant experience the other day while shopping at Atwoods. An elderly gentleman saw my Vietnam CPN Veteran cap and approached me and said, “Vietnam, I see, well I was a little bit ahead of you. I was with UDT at Normandy in 1944, and there was nobody there, but us. We cleared Read More »