(Cobell lawsuit lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell addresses tribal leaders at a meeting at the Iowa Nation complex near Perkins, Oklahoma.) (Editor’s note: The CPN Public Information Department has fielded several questions from CPN members who have heard about the settlement of the Cobell lawsuit over BIA mismanagement of funds in Individual Indian Money [IIM] accounts. Read More »

(Jim Halsey accepts a proclamation establishing ‘Jim Halsey Day’ from Oklahoma Secretary of State Susan Savage.) The ceremony opened with a prayer in Potawatomi and English on the evening of Wednesday, April 7 as Country music impresario/artists manager Jim Halsey of Tulsa was honored at the Oklahoma History Center, located near the State Capitol. Minisa Read More »

FireLake Golf Course 1901 S Gordon Cooper Drive, Shawnee, OK 74801  View on map: N 35° 17 38.39568 W 96° 55 27.9426 Friday, Sep 24, 2010 Start Date: Friday, Sep 24, 2010, 8:00am – Location: FireLake Golf Course – 1901 S Gordon Cooper Drive, Shawnee, OK 74801 Registration is open for a golf tournament Sept. Read More »

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 »