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Citizen Potawatomi Nation company history timeline

1830

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced thousands of Native Americans to walk from their homes in the Great Lakes and east coast regions to Indian Territory.

1833

With the Indian Removal Act after the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Mission Band was forced to march to a new reserve in Kansas.

1838

4, 1838, a band of 859 Potawatomi, with their leaders shackled and restrained in the back of a wagon, set out on a forced march from their homeland in northern Indiana for a small reserve in present-day Kansas.

1862

After the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, encouraging independent farmers to move west with the offer of a title to a plot of land after showing improvements for five years.

1869

In 1869, a party of Citizen Potawatomi traveled to Indian Territory and selected 576,000 acres between the north and south forks of the Canadian River, just west of the Seminole reservation.

1872

The earliest families to make the journey to their new reserve arrived in the Indian Territory in 1872.

1876

In 1876 the Citizen Potawatomi invited the Catholic Order of St Benedict to build a church and school, under the direction of Father Isodore Robot, for their children on the new reserve.

1889

The first Land Run took place on April 22, 1889, and established present-day Oklahoma City and Guthrie in one day.

1891

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s historical ties are with the Land Runs of 1891, which took place on Sept.

22, 1891, claim more than 20,000 people lined up in various locations surrounding the settlements, waiting for the starting signal to stake their claim.

In the Land Run of 1891, the remainder of the Potawatomi reservation in Oklahoma was opened up to non-Indian settlement, with the result that about 450 square miles (1,200 km2) of the reservation was given away by the government to settlers.

1920

Pauline McCoy Lewis and Omar D. Lewis [Vice Chairman]. ca 1920 |

1938

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation constitution was adopted in 1938.

1983

In order to communicate more effectively with its members, the business committee established regional council offices in 1983 in Oregon, Washington, California, the Southwest, Colorado, Texas, and the Midwest.

1994

Joseph Murphy, Potawatomi of the West: Origins of the Citizen Band (Shawnee, Okla.: Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe, 1994).

1999

Citizen Potawatomi Nation Family Festival Grand Entry . 1999 |

The annual Family Reunion Festival replaced the intertribal powwow in the summer of 1999.

2006

In January of 2006, the CPN Cultural Heritage Center opened its doors.

2007

On August 16, 2007, the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ unnecessary oversight of our Tribal government was rejected by voters, and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation overwhelmingly ratified a new constitution.

2008

He has been a member of the CPCDC family for almost eight years, joining the team in 2008, after a career in banking and real estate development.

Along with the great leadership provided by its board of directors and by CPCDC’s senior management staff, Crothers has played a pivotal role in helping the organization grow – from $12 million to more than $40 million since 2008.

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