Meet your legislator: District 5’s Gene Lambert

  Describing why she decided to serve in the CPN government, as a regional director and as current system as District 5 legislator, Arizona’s Gene Lambert says “It’s like the knowing when you hear something right. When you know, you know.” Like her counterparts in the CPN Legislature, Lambert is enthusiastic about her work with Read More »

Rural Water District #3 to install major water line

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Rural Water District 3 will soon install 11 miles of eight inch water line in western Pottawatomie County. This line will provide service to new RWD3 customers along its route and, most importantly, it will connect the Dale Water Plant to the original distribution territory of RWD3, which is served by Read More »

Potawatomi success stories

Citizen Potawatomi Nation members have had many accomplishments and earned distinctions in academic, athletic and artistic fields over the past few months. Here are just a few of their success stories. If you have someone whose accomplishments deserve recognition, please email [email protected]. The son of Kimberly Holloway and Daniel Holloway, Isaac Eichelberger was selected to Read More »

Gathering Experience

Bozho n’Nikanek! – Greeting my friends! The 2013 Gathering of the Potawatomi Nations is a celebration of language, culture, tradition, family, reconnecting with tribal members, food, and much more. It is a gathering to share experiences, knowledge, exchange of ideas, and make new friends and connections This year’s annual gathering was hosted by the proud Read More »

Director of Health Services Tim Tall Chief

Whether it’s a routine dental appointment or assistance in planning dietary needs for elderly tribal members, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s health services are a vital amenity for many. Overseeing the extensive network of tribal clinics and wellness services is the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s Health Services Director Tim Tall Chief. The son of a former Principal Read More »

An Eyewitness Report from the Gathering of Nations 2013

The annual Gathering of Nations reunites the nine Potawatomi Nations / Bands as one Potawatomi Tribe. Each year a different nation hosts the Gathering. The 2013 Gathering of Nations was hosted by the Pokagon Band near Dowagiac, Michigan on land that was purchased in 1833 by Chief Pokagon to insure a place from which Potawatomi could Read More »

Meet your legisator: District 13’s Bobbi Bowden

Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s 16-person legislature covers the entire United States of America, with districts 1-8 encompassing the states outside of Oklahoma. One of the five Oklahoma-based representatives, Bobbi Bowden, has served the tribe for more than four years as the District 13 representative. A Choctaw, Okla. native, the Trombla family descendent still lives in her Read More »

Tribal Youth Program secures education funding grant

In its ongoing efforts to serve youth in the areas surrounding tribal headquarters in Shawnee, Okla., the Citizen Potawatomi Nation has recently been approved expand an after school tutoring program for Native American youth. According to Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA), approximately 28 percent of the 273 delinquent youth in Pottawatomie County were Native Read More »

Citizen Potawatomi Nation donates bus to OBU athletic department

Oklahoma Baptist University will take the football field on Aug. 31 for the first time since 1940, playing Southwestern College of Kansas. The new football program meant they needed a shuttle for OBU fans that will visit the campus this fall. “We offered to help by donating a 40-passenger bus to shuttle football fans from Read More »