Hownikan Podcast

Mar 09 2025 63 ep. 26 mins 5
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Hownikan Podcast, highlighting Citizen Potawatomi Nation issues, members and more. Produced and distributed by the CPN Public Information Department. Hosted by Tribal member Paige Willett.

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Potawatomi Fire, the Two-Time TBL Champs

Mar 09 2025 32 mins  
Potawatomi Fire, the Two-Time TBL Champs by Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Basketball championship, PTSD and water quality testing

Aug 04 2023 28 mins  
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.

Scholarship donation, leadership program anniversary and NARCAN training

Jun 23 2023 21 mins  
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.

Family farm, elders and holistic wellness

May 31 2023 28 mins  
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.

2023 election candidates

May 12 2023 31 mins  
During this episode, listeners meet this year’s candidates for Citizen Potawatomi Nation legislative offices for Districts 10 and 11.

Heirloom care, trains and awareness exhibit

Apr 14 2023 26 mins  
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.

Native agriculture across Indian Country

Mar 30 2023 22 mins  
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.

Empathy training and Olympic swimmer

Mar 16 2023 25 mins  
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.

Decade of Braiding Sweetgrass

Feb 24 2023 25 mins  
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.

Land acknowledgment art and Jump Start Day

Feb 10 2023 18 mins  
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.