Since Nov. 2013, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Diabetes and Healthy Heart programs have put on a cooking demonstration once a month for individuals suffering from diabetes. Healthy Heart Coordinator and Read More »
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation will host a fundraiser to help provide storm shelters for schools in Pottawatomie County on May 3, 2014. Speakers at the event will include Tyler Bridges, Read More »
With 38 federally recognized Tribes, Oklahoma, formerly called Indian Territory, is home to the second largest Native American population in the United States. Tribes in the U.S. have struggled for Read More »
CPN recently hosted the quarterly meeting of the Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Reentry Alliance, a group offering support, instruction, and education training to ex-offenders. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation organized the event to Read More »
In June of 2012 the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Eagle Aviary received a juvenile bald eagle originally from the Florida Audubon Society. Many people know this eagle as Wadase and have Read More »
The famed Potawatomi artist Woody Crumbo depicted his life in the American southwest through paintings of intricately detailed horses, personal portraits and landscapes. Crumbo has etched his way into Potawatomi Read More »
On a monthly basis, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s Health clinics see more than 1,700 patients. This includes 250 behavioral health appointments, 500 lab tests and 250 x-rays. Such an expansive Read More »
The CPN House of Hope offers free community assistance programs in the areas surrounding the tribal headquarters which focus on child abuse, sexual assault, and other domestic violence issues. For Read More »
More than thirty thousand CPN tribal members reside across the globe and each has an elected representative. Overseeing the geographically largest district in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s legislature is Olympia, Read More »
Election season is in full swing in two CPN legislative districts holding competitive races this year. Challenging incumbent Dave Carney for the District 8 seat is Vancouver, Wash. resident Clyde Read More »