In its mission to seek out funding for tribal services, the Office of Self Governance plays an important role in the financial stability needed to keep many of the tribe’s vital programs running. CPN recently welcomed a new Grants and Contracts Coordinator to the office, tribal member Tesia Zientek. A 2005 graduate of Bethel High Read More »

  CPN’s overall economic growth during the past decade has been a catalyst in developing the tribe’s physical infrastructure. Before a single foundation is laid or rivet is driven, planners must assess a number of factors to begin construction. Prior to even that, learning about the surrounding property and topography is important in the tribe’s Read More »

Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Kody Silas starts his day early. Every morning at 6:30 a.m. Kody wakes up and goes to the barn to feed his cows. After that, he’s off to high school, then homework, then back out to the barn to wash and dry the cows. Kody Silas has done this same Read More »

Citizen Potawatomi Nation is conducting a census of tribal members in order to obtain contact information and demographic details. The census data will be used for future emergency response efforts and to provide details when applying to receive grant funds. “We had more than 310 households respond to the voluntary survey so far,” said Margaret Read More »

Housing Director Bob Carlile retired in July after more than 15 years of service with Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Carlile joined CPN after working with the Sac and Fox Nation and the Cherokee Nation. “I won’t call this a retirement because that means we won’t see him again,” said Chairman John Barrett. “This is the second Read More »

The storied baseball program at Asher High School is known throughout the state by many coaches, regardless of the size of their school. Its 46 state championships in fall and spring baseball are a total that will be difficult for any other program to recreate. This isn’t to mention its holding the state record of Read More »

Following the conclusion of the 2013 Family Festival, the Legislature of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation met with a watching audience of Potawatomi Leadership Program and other tribal members at the tribal headquarters in Shawnee. Resolutions were passed approving grant proposals to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. One proposal related to funding for the tribe in Read More »

Welcome to this month’s edition of the Potawatomi Cornerstone.  In this issue I would like to introduce Carter Sampson, whose ancestral family is the Greemores. If you read the last edition of the Hownikan you are already familiar with her tornado relief efforts in Pottawatomie County.  This article takes it a step further with her Read More »

From the July 15-19, CPN’s Language Department’s Justin Neely and Randy Schlachtun traveled to the Forest County Potawatomi reservation to take part in a series of language immersion classes. “We were able to speak Potawatomi and learn about the more complex forms of the language such as obviation so as to better help others in Read More »

We have become accustomed to Wadase Zhabwe’s presence here on the aviary grounds. She has spent the majority of her time here or nearby since her return to the aviary on May 10th. We seem to have reached an arrangement that works for her. As long as she greets us for breakfast we work around Read More »