This month we will be hosting our fifth annual winter storytelling event on February 22 at the CPN Cultural Heritage Center from 6-8 p.m. As many of you may recall, traditionally we have a number of stories which can only be told in the wintertime – preferably when there is snow on the ground. Here in Oklahoma snow is very inconsistent from year to year. Read More »
The Professional Bowlers Association has revised its FireLake PBA Tournament of Champions schedule this week due to a logistical problem which delayed the arrival of one of the PBA’s semi-trailers transporting bowling ball inventory and equipment of many TOC players from last week’s Barbasol PBA Players Championship in Columbus, Ohio, to Shawnee. The official practice Read More »
After three moves in the last four years, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Community Garden has found a new home for the 2017 season. Assistant Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Andrew Gourd and other CPN staff members have done the bulk of the work moving the garden from the CPN Eagle Aviary to the Sharp House this fall. With this change comes great opportunity, but also another year Read More »
The Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation has a number of missions. Whether its staff is promoting small business development in Indian Country, financing community infrastructure development in rural Oklahoma or providing credit and financial management counseling to those in need, the organization takes on a wide array of challenges. One such mission is now in its third installment, as the 2017 Oklahoma Indian Nations directory is now on Read More »
The thunder is talking at the CPN Eagle Aviary, which is now home to a peregrine falcon. Thomo Yake which means “thunder” in Comanche, is an adult, female peregrine falcon, a species that is the fastest bird in the world and can fly more than 200 miles per hour. She has a wonderfully loud voice, hence her name which is directly translated as “Heaven Read More »
In 1838, 859 pairs of feet were forced to march 660 miles from their home in Indiana to Kansas on what is now referred to as the Trail of Death. Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center staff is looking for tribal members to make a pair of pucker toe moccasins to illustrate these feet for the new museum exhibit that portrays this seminal event in Read More »
For four decades, the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa has provided quality, comprehensive health care to the city’s Native American people in a culturally sensitive manner. Born out of a need to serve an urban Indian population underserved by the city’s existing healthcare facilities, the IHCRC has worked to eliminate health disparities and strengthen the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness of those it serves. Read More »
Like many enterprises that make up the ever growing FireLake complex at Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the tribal member-owned BDC Gun Room stands in stark contrast to what stood in its location just a few years ago. Sitting in what was once a wheat field off Hardesty Road three quarters of a mile east of State Highway 177, the 39,000 square foot indoor range and Read More »
The 2017 Potawatomi Leadership Program application will be open from February 1 – April 15. Every summer, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation brings 8-10 tribal members ages 18-20 to learn about the tribe’s government, economic development and culture as part of the PLP. In 2003, the program began as a way to address a need to prepare future leaders for the Nation. Tribal leaders understood that a Read More »
With longtime Moore, Oklahoma State Representative Paul Wesselhöft stepping down due to term limits, Senator Jason Smalley (R-Stroud) and Representative Mark McBride (R-Moore) are the only Citizen Potawatomi serving in the current legislature. Similar to the past two sessions following the global energy price crash, of which Oklahoma’s economy is so vulnerable to, this legislative session will feature another budget shortfall estimated to be around $692 Read More »