2025 Juneteenth Art Contest

Submissions for the 2025 Juneteenth Art Contest are now being accepted. The contest is open to any student grade 4 through 12 at any school. Winners will be selected from 4th through 8th grade and 9th through 12th grade age groups.

2025 Tribal Education Summit sign-ups are open

Join Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Sac and Fox Nation, and Seminole Nation at the CPN Cultural Heritage Center this April 3rd! Featuring updates from National Indian Education Association, the Office of Indian Education, Johnson O’Malley, and Us Legislature.

2025 CPN Art Contest Opens for Entries

The 2025 CPN Department of Education art contest is open to Tribal citizens of any age to submit art in any style featuring a Potawatomi theme. The submission deadline is March 1, 2025.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation Interns of 2024

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Department of Education provides several opportunities for Tribal members and those pursuing academic goals, including a six-week paid internship with the Tribe. This summer, CPN hosted 19 interns, each bringing a variety of unique skills, experiences and goals and made valuable contributions during their internships. Here are profiles for some of CPN’s 2024 summer interns.

College and Career Fair

The eighth annual CPN College and Career Fair will be held at FireLake Arena on Wednesday, September 4 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all!

Virtual Talking Circle: Dgwaget (Fall)

Please join us for our Dgwaget (Fall) Virtual Talking Circle on September 19 featuring a presentation by Tribal member Kabl Wilkerson.

CPN graduates celebrated

Whether they’d completed high school or college, Citizen Potawatomi Nation celebrated its recent graduates with a graduation celebration and lunch.

Program connects students with Potawatomi heritage

The CPN Department of Education held the second annual Coming into the Circle event, a program designed to introduce high school students to the Tribe’s language, history, cultural practices and resources.

2024 Juneteenth Art Contest

Submissions for the 2024 Juneteenth Art Contest are now being accepted. The contest is open to any student grade 4 through 12 at any school. Winners will be selected from 4th through 8th grade and 9th through 12th grade age groups.

Watson named director of CPN Department of Education

Rachel Watson, a member of the Navarre family, was named director of the CPN Department of Education at the beginning of 2024. Watson attended Oklahoma City Public Schools, then completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma, where they majored in history and minored in German. At the University of Pennsylvania, Watson received a CPN scholarship to help cover some of the costs as they earned a master’s degree in Education, Culture and Society.