The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Veterans Organization exists to bring together Citizen Potawatomi veterans, active-duty service members and their families, and seeks to recruit new members.
In early 2021, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, Tara Sweeney, appointed Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Jason O’Neal as the deputy bureau director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Office of Justice Services.
I Am Not Invisible featured Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and Army Veteran Lisa Wamego Bruce in 2019 who joined the Army in November of 1982 and was stationed in Korea.
The East Central University Athletics Department has awarded the 2021 Milam Award to Richard Brown, former ECU football player and Citizen Potawatomi Nation Human Resources Department Director.
CPN tribal member Sara Winsett and her husband Michael decided to expand their family in late 2019. They reached out to FireLodge and began their journey to parenthood, and this year, they adopted three children.
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s Cultural Heritage Center’s Tribal Heritage Project seeks to capture each CPN veteran and elder’s story through video interviews to safeguard the Nation and Tribal members’ history for generations to come.
The Potawatomi Crumbo family is full of stonemasons, Navy members, artists, filmmakers and more.
Hear about the Potawatomi Fire, CPN’s new professional basketball team and from two Tribal members – one who self-published their first comic book and another who hiked to the top of Mt. Whitney along the High Sierra Trail in California’s Sequoia National Park.
Professional basketball is coming to Shawnee in 2022 with the debut of the Potawatomi Fire. The team, owned by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a member of The Basketball League, will play at FireLake Arena.
The CPN Language Department discusses their classes offered in public school districts and language learning resources available to everyone, everywhere.