Enroll in CPN

Are you and your birth children in the birth lineage of Richard Pitcher? Are you enrolled in Citizen Potawatomi Nation? If Yes - make sure to proudly mark it on your census form next year.

 If not, please do it. It’s fairly easy. Find the forms at
https://www.potawatomi.org/services/citizenship/ or call them at (800) 880-9880 and they will get you started.

 Why enroll?

 1) it leaves the door open for your future generations to enroll. If you die before being enrolled, your children and their children cannot be CPN.

 2) it makes it easier to learn bits of information about our tribe over time. You can join the CPN Facebook page, the genealogy page, the language page, our District 8 page (you could have been at the class last spring to make your own hand drum).  Read the HowNiKan monthly newsletter (print or on-line).

 3) there are some monetary benefits. College tuition assistance. Access to Indian Health Services. Funeral benefit when you “walk on.”

 4) access to the annual “Family Reunion Festival” in Shawnee Oklahoma . Yes it’s hot and humid, but I highly recommend it. I met distant cousins. Went to the Eagle aviary - yes we have our own, and you can get feathers from there. If you’re enrolled. Made moccasins. Didn’t spend nearly enough time in the cultural center. Joined a team to play hand games. And of course PowWow! Drums and dancing. Could have also done beading, flute playing, and much more. All free but a materials cost for some of the classes. 

 Language : Bodewadmimwen
Fry bread- zaskokwetek pkweshgen
Eagle - Kno
Drum - dewegen
Moccasins - seymkezen
Beads - mdomnes (small beads)
Flute - pegwen

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