(CPN member Kimberly Vanderberg’s home was destroyed in the May 10 tornado.) OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahomans who have received notice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that they are ineligible for disaster assistance following the May 10-13 tornadoes and storms may be able to use additional documentation to turn that “no” into a Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Brandon Pruitt, a native of Lexington, Oklahoma, has launched a new, six-song Extended Play (EP) album on compact disc. With a performance in Norman, Oklahoma on Sunday, June 6, Pruitt has also completed a set of several concerts in central Oklahoma and has returned to Nashville. In an interview for the Read More »
Josh Peltier – Ballplayer Extraordinaire He might not be quite ready for a Stephen Strasborg-like* Major League baseball debut yet. But, three-year-old Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Joshua Peltier was pictured on the front page of the Shawnee, Oklahoma News-Star recently, thoroughly enjoying a bit of late-spring ball-playing. Josh’s dad is CPN member Tracy Read More »
(CPN member George Godfrey offers a tobacco blessing for one of the Trail of Death signs.) Descendants dedicate ‘Trail of Death’ signs By Curt Slyder, Lafayette, Indiana Journal & Courier In 1838, more than 850 Potawatomi Indians were forced to march about 660 miles from northern Indiana to Kansas as white settlers began moving Read More »
(Jesse Hernandez directs CPN Childhood Development Center singers during the 2007 Christmas program.) By Josh Burton, Shawnee News-Star writer – josh.burton@news-star.com SHAWNEE, Okla. — The Shawnee Public Schools Board of Education has named long-time Citizen Potawatomi Nation employee Jesse Hernandez as the next principal at Shawnee Early Childhood Center during its regularly scheduled meeting at Read More »
OKLAHOMA CITY – If the Red Earth Pow-Wow is a statement of multi-tribal diversity, then painter Matt Bearden is a poster boy for the cause. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation member went to school in Cherokee Country in Tahlequah, Okla. lives in Osage Country in Hominy, Okla. and paints primarily Southern Plains subjects. “You see a Read More »
(Webmaster’s note: Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Mike Rich attended a world premiere event for the movie The Nativity Story at the Vatican in Rome on November 26. In this interview from the Web site www.ComingSoon.net, Mike Rich talks about writing the screenplay for The Nativity Story, which opens at theaters across America on December 1.) Read More »
Dr. Ray Mooring is an institution in Mount Olive, having run his dental practice from his office on Smith Chapel Road ever since 1969. Mooring recently made the decision to retire after finding someone he felt comfortable entrusting his patients to. Dr. Amy Kimes (right) took over the practice late last month and has been Read More »
The AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour is scheduled to make a stop at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Senior Nutrition Site in Shawnee on June 3, 2010 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The site is located at 2345 N. Gordon Cooper Drive. This event is part of AARP Oklahoma’s on-going diversity project with Oklahoma Indians. The following Read More »
Along with autumn and falling leaves, October also brings to light a difficult, yet important, subject. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and according to Amanda Chapman – the House of Hope domestic violence prevention initiative consultant – it isn’t easy to know at the beginning of a relationship if a partner is abusive. “I think it is wonderful that the month of Read More »