The three day weekend that brings CPN members from all over the world offers plenty of activities for family and friends to get fit. Three on three basketball, slow pitch softball and a 5k race are just a few events offered to “get fit” this Festival. The CPN Wellness Center will have a 5k Read More »
Every year CPN offers friendly games for adults who wish to test their skills at some of the more strategic and traditional games. The games and tournaments pair friends and family to go up against one another for chance to win prizes. Each game challenges the wits of each participant to tactically defeat their opponent. Read More »
Last year more than 5,000 Tribal members and their families descended upon Shawnee, Okla. for Family Reunion Festival. The event is a great time for old friends to reconnect and strangers to coincide. Food is one of the main components to a reunion and bringing family together in America. As always, CPN employees prepare Read More »
In an industry that Hollywood has portrayed as a bastion of rogues and crooks, working in the gaming community can appear as a strange career path for someone like Judy Shore. Shore, the Director of Casino Operations for Grand Casino Hotel and Resort is more typical a face of the gaming industry than anything Read More »
In today’s world, anyone can capture a photograph with the touch of a button from their phone. In past years, during Family Reunion Festival, tribal members have been doing just that, documenting the memories for generations to come. For the past four years, CPN member and professional photographer, Sharon Hoogstraten, has done the same Read More »
April in Oklahoma is when the season truly starts to change, with grass turning green, trees begin to bud and crops sprout from the tilled soil. With seven billion people in the world, keeping up with the waste is something the earth can’t defend against without help. Earth Day was created in 1970 by Read More »
The days are getting long and are getting hot, meaning it is again time for the annual Day of Champions Football Camp. Sponsored by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the two day camp will take place at FireLake Ballfields from June 30-July 1. The Tribally-sponsored camps are open to all enrolled Native American youth or children Read More »
Citizen Potawatomi Nation donated two re-purposed desktops computers and a scanner to the Santa Fe Depot Museum in Shawnee. The Pottawatomie County Oklahoma Historical Society reached out to CPN to see if they had any computers available for a project they will be overseeing at the Santa Fe Depot Museum. “We plan on using Read More »
Where:FireLake Bowling Center and the Grand Hotel, Casino and Resort Shawnee, Okla. When: (all times are Central) Monday, May 19, PBA Wolf Open 8 a.m. – A Squad, 6 qualifying games2 p.m. – B Squad, 6 qualifying games Top 18 advance to second qualifying round7:30 p.m. – Top 18, 6 qualifying games Top 5 after Read More »
Marshall Kent, a 21-year-old native of Yakima, Wash., and predicted by many observers to be headed toward stardom in professional bowling, has announced he is joining the Professional Bowlers Association and will compete as a PBA member in Oklahoma’s Grand Casino Resort PBA Summer Swing in Shawnee, Okla., May 18-25. Kent, a two-time Collegiate Bowler Read More »