Language update: November 2018

By Justin Neely, Director of the CPN Language Department It is an exciting time to be Potawatomi. If you want to learn the language, we are continually enhancing and developing new tools and classes to make that possible. Our goal of making the language accessible no matter where you live is truly coming to fruition. Read More »

CPCDC forges ties at 2018 American Indian summit

By Felecia Freeman, Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation Commercial Loan Officer The American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma held their annual business summit, The Gathering 2018, at the Choctaw Casino & Resort in early October. The group’s mission is to advocate, educate and connect the Native American business community to advance economic opportunities throughout Read More »

Miller honored as one of Oklahoma’s Indian Elders by AARP

Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Joe Miller of Choctaw, Oklahoma, is one of 2018’s AARP Indian Elder Award recipients. The award is a tribute to the venerated position of honor and respect tribal nations give their elders. The Anderson family descendant received this year’s Indian Elders award for his impact on Oklahoma athletic combat sports Read More »

Clinics and pharmacies nationwide are gearing up for the 2018-2019 influenza season

Submitted by Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton During the 2017-2018 flu season, 291 Oklahomans died and almost 5,000 people were hospitalized due to the flu or complications stemming from it, such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Nationally, more than 900,000 people were hospitalized during the previous flu season, according to data from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Elders Read More »

Wadase returns with a friend

  By Jennifer Randell and Bree  Dunham, CPN Eagle Aviary Managers Weather patterns have been erratic this year, and fall has been no exception in Oklahoma. The pastures are still lush and green, and the trees, which would normally be nearly bare, are full of leaves that are only just beginning to suggest that autumn is Read More »

The Mad Tatter takes over tattooing in Shawnee

The Mad Tatter celebrated its two-year anniversary at the end of October, and in that time, people took notice. Inspired by the 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the tattoo shop’s interior boasts textured walls, bright colors and a different theme from the movie in every room. “We wanted to make it like you fell Read More »

CPN’s Kay Manning wins Ms. Senior Oklahoma 2018 crown

After competing against ten other contestants from across Oklahoma, Kay Manning of Oklahoma City took the top spot during this summer’s Ms. Senior Oklahoma Pageant at Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond, Oklahoma. “She is a wonderful, talented lady, and we are proud of having her as our new queen to represent our great state of Oklahoma,” said Read More »

The curious case of Bourassa Mill, the missing scrolls

Approximately a mile southeast of Maple Hill, Kansas, along Mill Creek sits the remnants of influential Potawatomi Jude Bourassa’s gristmills. Jude’s father, Daniel Bourassa II, was the first to sign the Muster Roll, which began the Potawatomi people’s forced removal from Indiana to present-day Kansas on the Trail of Death. However, Jude did not leave Read More »

Trail of Death illuminated in Two-Moon Journey

In 1838, American militia members evacuate Simu-quah, a young Potawatomi girl, and the rest of her family from their village at Twin Lakes in Indiana and force them to begin a long march to Kansas. Seeing her father, a local headman (or chief), chained in the back of a prison wagon, Simu-quah resolved to help Read More »