Registration for “A League of Their Own” are being taken now. There is a special registration form for the league outside of the typical summer league games held at the quad. “A League of Their Own” began their first season of play in the spring of 2009 at the Seminole Girls Softball Complex. The co-ed Read More »
Amongst the many communities established inside the historical jurisdiction of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation was the small town of Wanette. Many residents are CPN Tribal members or members of other federallyrecognized tribes, while 47 percent of Wanette Public Schools students are of Native American descent. Located in a somewhat remote portion of southern Pottawatomie County, Read More »
In recent years the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation has provided funding, guidance and support for a number of Native American business owners around the country. In late 2015 the CPCDC securedits largest funding amount in more than 10 years, a total of $21.3 million. The organization’s success relies upon a small group of dedicated Read More »
For the March 2016 Hownikan, we’re working on an article on the best practices in gathering your family information to help build a Potawatomi family tree. Looking back on this Way Back Wednesday though, that’s a common topic that seems to span generations. Take a look at this article from the 1982 edition of the Read More »
For the past 20 years, environmental organizations have fought to keep the Monarch butterfly from going extinct. The iconic butterfly has experienced a significant population loss, mainly due to pesticide use on genetically engineered crops. Pesticides kill milkweed, which is the Monarch’s main source of food and shelter. For some Native American tribes, butterflies symbolize Read More »
A small group of high school students who have already won $10,000 for solving an environmental challenge within the community is shaking things up by tackling Oklahoma’s earthquake problem. The STEM Club at Bethel High School incorporates science, technology, engineering and math in its weekly after-school meetings, and this semester the club is making a Read More »
Lots of exciting things are going on with the language department. On Wed., Feb. 24 we will be hosting our third annual Winter Storytelling Festival at the CPN Cultural Heritage Center from 6-8 p.m. We will have food and refreshments and all are welcome. We hope you will come out and listen to some of Read More »
Keep the commodity cheese away from Fawn White, thanks. “I hate commod cheese,” she said. “I despise it when I hear people say, ‘Oh, I love that cheese!’ Well buddy, you didn’t grow up on that cheese.” With American Indian and Alaska Natives more likely to struggle with regular access to food, that cheese, distributed Read More »
This week for Way Back Wednesday we take a look back at what made the front page of the Hownikan thirty years ago this month.
The resurgence in positive portrayals of Native American culture has come with unforeseen consequences in recent decades. A drive for purity – specifically in terms of defining what it means to be Indian – has become a prominent topic of discussion in places like Oklahoma, where so many tribal nations, cultures and peoples intermingled. Thanks Read More »