A new exhibit at the Red Earth Museum & Gallery, 6 Santa Fe Plaza in downtown Oklahoma City, features select pieces from the museum’s permanent collection that reflects upon a 50-year span of contemporary and modern American Indian art styles from the 1930s through the 1980s. “RETROspective” is a compilation of art pieces culled from the Read More »
(Above left and right, respectively, CPN elders Leon Cross and Alan Kelly pose with AARP officials after receiving their medallions as Honored Oklahoma Indian Elders. Below left, Mr. Cross opens the festivities with a prayer delivered in the Potawatomi language. Below right, CPN employee Leslie Deer (Mvskoke) dances at the AARP event as part of Read More »
(Meet Sweetheart, a few days into her recovery) CPN member Jessica Lantagne, who lives in the Shawnee, Oklahoma area, is one of the founders of a greyhound rescue group, Fasthound Greyhound Adoption (www.Fasthound.org). On Friday, August 13, 2010, Fasthound members rescued Sweetheart, a greyhound in Chickasha, Oklahoma who had been severely mistreated. Lantagne has set Read More »
The world has lost a young warrior and a future engineer and architect, the work he would have accomplished and the family he would have created. His parents and other family members, his Citizen Potawatomi family, and his friends have lost a loved one and a source of inspiration. As his aunt Amanda Salisbury wrote Read More »
(Robbie Komacheet of Shawnee is less than a second away from holing out on the 18th to win the 36-hole FireLake Classic at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's FireLake Golf Course on Sunday, August 1. Komacheet had his first-ever hole-in-one in earning the championship flight top money.)
Andy Young in critical condition in Missouri hospital In May 2010, Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Stephen Andrew ‘Andy’ Young graduated from Okemah, Oklahoma High School with honors. He had the opportunity to pursue his education with several full academic scholarships. Instead, he chose to serve his country in the United States Army. He planned to pursue additional training to be a Read More »
Actor Wes Studi, a Cherokee, and Caitlin Baker, a Muscogee Creek member from Norman, are shown after a June 30 hearing in Washington on diabetes research. Photo by Chris Casteel, The Oklahoman WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caitlin Baker has seen her American Indian peers accept diabetes as inevitable, and she has seen them fight against it Read More »
(Vice Chairman Linda Capps is sworn in for a new four-year term by Chairman John ‘Rocky’ Barrett as Secretary-Treasurer, D. Wayne Trousdale, who earned re-election without opposition, holds the Bible.) Meeting in Shawnee, Oklahoma for their 12th annual Family Reunion Festival, Citizen Potawatomi Nation members have retained Linda Capps for a new four-year term as Read More »
After an up and down spring, the Tennessee University Volunteers left many questions to stew over during the summer and to be answered in fall practice before the 2010 season. Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Tyler Bray, a freshman quarterback at Tennessee, is at the center of one of Website Bleacher Report’s feature Tennessee Volunteers Football: Read More »
CPN member Robert Coulter leads law center The Indian Law Resource Center, based in Helena, Montana and Washington, D.C., is among three organizations which will share the 2010 Gruber Justice Prize given to individuals and groups which, through the legal system, champion the rights of oppressed peoples. The Center is headed by Citizen Potawatomi Nation Read More »