CPN Tribal member Blake Weaver will join the board of a Texas organization that offers Native Americans quality health care and a sense of community.
Tribal member Barbara Wall is one of the authors of Unsettling Education, which “tackles ‘unsettling’ as an emerging field of study that calls for settlers to follow Indigenous leadership and relationality and work toward disrupting the colonial reality through their everyday lives.”
Ogee and Weld family descendant Dr. Kelli Mosteller is Oklahoma City’s First Americans Museum’s new executive director and glad to be home. Most recently, Mosteller was the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Previously, she was the executive director of the CPN Cultural Heritage Center for 11 years.
LeClaire family descendants Josephine and Jacqueline Gimigliano have been playing lacrosse since they were in kindergarten. This year, the sisters brought the sport they love to Family Reunion Festival, highlighting the sport’s Indigenous roots.
Jesse Mitchell, a member of the Tescier family, is having what you might call a banner year after being named coach of the year, watching his Lady Falcons soccer team take a Valley Championship, and being inducted into his high school’s Hall of Fame.
Tyler Strobel, a member of the Johnson family from New Jersey, started teaching himself to play the piano when he was 13. Four years later, shortly after turning 17, he traveled from his home in New Jersey to play for his Tribe at the Cultural Heritage Center. Tyler’s mother, Debbie Strobel, first contacted the CPN Read More »
Sports like basketball are known for building character and teaching important life skills like working with a team. For Tribal member Tanner Hazelbaker, playing basketball has also helped him travel the world.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Dr. Kelli Mosteller has been named the new executive director and chief executive officer of the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Harrah (Oklahoma) High School graduate and Tescier family descendant Kash Maynard closed out his high school athletics career by winning a 2024 state powerlifting title.
Constellation stories are tied to the Potawatomi way of life and relationships to nature, and Potawatomi artist Minisa Crumbo Halsey reflects these teachings in her paintings. Crumbo Halsey hopes her art will encourage Potawatomi to embrace the traditional star knowledge Nishnabé people have relied upon for hundreds of years.