CPN is soliciting bids on a Komatsu PC200LC Trackhoe and a Komatsu PC300LC Trackhoe. Please remit all bids to Purchasing department at 41711 Hardesty Rd. Shawnee, OK 74801, by Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation requests proposals for Professional Design/Build Architecutral and Engineering Services for the design and construction of a 2,300-2,500 sq. ft. automatic drive thru tunnel car wash system no later than 2:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
This year’s Sovereignty Symposium will take place June 11-12, 2024, at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. Titled “A New Beginning,” the keynote speaker will be Geoffrey Standing Bear, principal chief of the Osage Nation.
Read Tribal Chairman John “Rocky” Barrett’s full statement.
The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi played host to the 2023 Potawatomi Gathering, with events scheduled at the Pine Creek Reservation and at the FireKeepers Casino near Fulton, Michigan, from July 24-29. Among those representing CPN in contests were Lauren Kelly and Craig Anderson.
Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Chicago-based artist Andrea Carlson made a splash in 2021 when her piece “You are on Potawatomi Land” was installed along the RiverWalk in downtown Chicago.
Shelley Hoogstraten-Miller, retired Captain of the United States Public Health Service, writes of the history of the USPHS and the importance of recognizing it for its critical role as one of the eight United States uniformed services.
In October 2022, the Oklahoma Public Safety Conference named Citizen Potawatomi Nation Police Department dispatcher Joan Nevin the state’s 2022 Telecommunicator of the Year at its annual event.
Dennis Hoy, a Citizen Potawatomi veteran, spent the last year and a half working on his new book, Letters from Vietnam, which outlines the year he spent trudging through the jungle and valleys of Southeast Asia in 1967 and 1968.
A new novel called Deep Roots, Tall Sky tells the story of a Tribal member’s childhood on her family’s farm on their original Tribal allotment in Wamego, Kansas, during the Dust Bowl.