During this episode, the Potawatomi Fire’s coach discusses the team’s championship winning season. We also hear from some of CPN’s mental health professionals about post-traumatic stress disorder and follow the CPN Department of Environmental Protection as they perform water quality testing.

During this episode, we’ll hear from a marathon runner who donated to a Tribal scholarship fund, celebrate 20 years of the Potawatomi Leadership Program, and look at one-way CPN is making an opioid overdose reversal tactic more available.

During this episode, we’ll spend time on a Tribal member’s family farm, talk with two Tribal elders for Older Americans Month and check in with FireLake Wellness Center on how they improve CPN employees’ health with a holistic approach.

During this episode, listeners meet this year’s candidates for Citizen Potawatomi Nation legislative offices for Districts 10 and 11.

During this episode, we’ll hear tips and tricks for keeping family heirlooms safe, take a ride on an exciting new piece of equipment for Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s industrial park, and visit an exhibit highlighting Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Mary Belle Zook, communications director for the Indigenous Food and Agricultural Initiative, brings together her skills, passions, agricultural background and Tribal heritage each day to help Native farmers and producers.

During this episode, we’ll hear tips to increase empathy and de-escalation strategies, and listen back to a Tribal member who was an Olympic synchronized swimmer at the 2012 London games. We’ll also hear a cosmological story from the CPN Language Department.

Best-selling writer, ecologist and professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ph.D., received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022 and discusses the decade anniversary of the publication of Braiding Sweetgrass, future plans in light of her most recent honor, and the inspirations and aspirations surrounding her work.

On today’s episode, we’re talking with an artist whose work proclaims the history of Potawatomi homeland along the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, and visit CPN House of Hope’s first Jump Start Day, designed to bring domestic violence and abuse services and information to the community in a positive and educational way.

This episode explores language, specifically Bodéwadmimwen (Potawatomi language) in a historical context. We hear from a Citizen Potawatomi Nation musician who paired with a filmmaker to create a music video showcasing the past, present and future of Potawatomi. We also discuss one of the few remaining first language speakers who recently walked on.