Language update: November/December 2025

The monthly report from the Nation’s Language Department offers conversational vocabulary, updates about current program offerings, and more.

Language update: November 2025

The monthly report from the Nation’s Language Department offers conversational vocabulary, updates about current program offerings, and more.

Language Department Coloring Contest

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Language Department will hold a coloring contest for Native students aged 4-11 during the month of November, with prizes awarded for first, second and third place. Download the coloring page at cpn.news/coloringcontest and submit entries to [email protected] by November 28.

Language update: September 2025

The September Language Update recaps the Potawatomi Gathering and Language Conference and highlights upcoming events and current online learning options.

Language update: July 2025

The July 2025 Language Update from Justin Neely recaps this summer’s immersion learning program and highlights upcoming offerings.

Language update: June 2025

The June 2025 update from the CPN Language Department highlights community game night, this year’s Master Apprentice program, and online learning.

After school children place at language fair

When the University of Oklahoma hosted its Native American Youth Language Fair this year, children from Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s after school program were among those to place.

Language update: May 2025

The May 2025 Language Update highlights ongoing conversational, intermediate, and immersion language courses; recend department news; and a number of online learning resources.

Program helps build Potawatomi language resources

Each semester, students in a Potawatomi I language course have a chance to write children’s books in the Potawatomi language. Recently, the author of one of those books was Bonner family descendant Morgan Aguiar.