Citizen Potawatomi Nation helped give back to the community during the holidays as employees hosted a variety of food drives and fundraisers.
Play it Loud’s first season includes four streamable episodes, each sharing the experiences, music and lives of one of four rising Oklahoma musicians: TJ Mayes, Casper McWade, Carter Sampson and Levi Parham. The Aug. 25 concert at Grand Event Center brings them together on one stage. Ticket proceeds benefit the Red Dirt Relief Fund, a Read More »
After hosting two successful Summer Swing events, the Professional Bowlers Association is once again headed to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. On Feb. 7, Super Bowl Sunday, ESPN will broadcast the finals of the FireLake-PBA Tournament of Champions live from FireLake Arena. “FireLake is without question one of the PBA’s best hosts,” said PBA Commissioner Tom Read More »
Great Lakes Stickball Player by George Catlin 1835 [Smithsonian American Art Museum.] The first known six-sided dice dates from 3,000 BC Mesopotamia in what is now northern Iraq. The first horse race in America took place in the year 1668. Gambling and sport have been a part of the human identity for as Read More »
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Housing Department received the Indian Community Development Block Grant Program award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The $800,000 grant will help fund the Grand Complex Child Daycare Center. Children eligible for daycare services must be 13 years or younger. The parent of an eligible child must be Read More »
Since 2009 the Grand Casino Hotel and Resort has been collecting Christmas presents from employees for the Shawnee Salvation Army to distribute to children throughout the community. The toys donated by employees, worth at least $10, qualify them for a raffle prize drawing at the Grand’s annual Christmas event. This incentive, coupled with the holiday’s Read More »
Flame Brazilian Steakhouse, located inside Grand Casino Hotel and Resort, brings an exciting new dining experience to central Oklahoma. Citizen Potawatomi Nation, which owns the Grand Casino, has frequently offered guests one-of-a-kind dining experiences, straying from the chain restaurant format offered at many gaming facilities. Flame is no exception to that and offers the only Read More »
CPN is located in an area of Oklahoma referred to as Frontier Country. It encompasses all of central Oklahoma from Stillwater to Norman and Seminole to Yukon. Oklahoma City is the largest city in Frontier Country and the state. Competition in such a heavily populated area makes it that much harder for business’ to stand 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 »
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation will host a fundraiser to help provide storm shelters for schools in Pottawatomie County on May 3, 2014. Speakers at the event will include Tyler Bridges, superintendent for Pleasant Grove Schools and Shane Jett, Congressional District 5 candidate. The event will include a dinner, silent auction and live auction and live Read More »