This week’s FireLake Gifts featured item of the week will help you get your workday morning started right by getting that first cup of joe down with these newly arrived Citizen Potawatomi-coffee mugs and thermoses. Potawatomi Proud Latte Mug – $10 CPN Tribal Seal Full Color Coffee Cup – $13.95 CPN Seal Black and Yellow Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation employs more than 2,200 employees across its vast array of commercial enterprises and Tribal government supported programs. Here are three management and supervisor-level positions at FireLake Discount Foods, FireLake Corner Store and the Travel Plaza located at the Grand Casino Hotel Resort. FireLake Discount Foods, which “Passionately Committed to Retail Excellence One Read More »
For the thirty first year in a row, golfers from around the region will be teeing off at FireLake Golf Course for the annual FireLake Classic. “This is one of our big events,” said FireLake Golf Course Director Chris Chesser. “We get our regular weekly golfers as well as some really good golfers from around Read More »
In April 2015, two Citizen Potawatomi Nation members boarded a Kansas Honor Flight bound for Washington D.C. Tribal members Steve and Turk Peddicord visited the nation’s capital, though their brother Stan was unable to go due to a family emergency. Below is an account of their trip from Steve Peddicord. Turk, Stan and I are Read More »
The scale and scope of issues plaguing the VA, well known for decades by military members caught up in the often confusing and arbitrary bureaucracy, was widely publicized in 2014. The resulting outcry forced then VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki to resign and a renewed push to reform the beleaguered administration responsible for the care Read More »
Bozho, A lot has been said about remembering our veterans in this and previous years. More and more, our nation is learning the value of the veterans and military service men and women it has produced. To give some perspective on the impact their commitment and sacrifice has made on our society, here is a Read More »
FireLake Wellness Center‘s annual fitness competition, called March Madness for the month it begins, was again a huge success. In its seventh year running, the fitness competition is a 64-individual tournament where wellness center attendees compete against one another in cardio workouts. “This is a contest that we do annually and people get excited about Read More »
To succeed in the art world, artists must continuously draw inspiration to fuel their passion. The famed Potawatomi artist, Woody Crumbo, lived in the desert hills of New Mexico and drew inspiration from the environment around him. In almost similar fashion, fellow CPN Tribal member Matt Bearden, explains that growing up on the Osage Plains Read More »
For Potawatomi making visits to the nation’s capital, the National Museum of the American Indian, located right in the middle of the National Mall, is a popular destination. What many Potawatomi visitors may not realize is a piece of Tribal history is on open display in the museum’s “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United Read More »
Saturday, July 18, 2015 marks the bicentennial of the Treaty of Portage des Sioux (July 18, 1815.) The treaty was a means to affirm previous compacts and ultimately draw peace between the Potawatomi Nation and the United States, resulting from the depredations caused and faced by both sides during the War of 1812. Exhibiting his Read More »