Longhouse Sacred Fire

Longhouse Sacred Fire

Summer Potawatomi Vocabulary Words:

Fire = shkode (sh-ko-day)

Garden = Gtegan (get-tuh-gone)

Gourd = shishigwIn

Moon = tpukises

Mother Earth = Sekmekwe (suge-muk-kway)

Pumpkin = wapkon

Red = mskwa (muh-shkwa)

Smoke = bkwe (bek-way)

South = we’jgzhate’k

Summer = Niben (nee-ben)

CPN Family Reunion

The CPN FAMILY REUNION CHILDREN’S BOOK, published this summer by the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe of Oklahoma, is written and illustrated by Potawatomi artist Minisa Crumbo. A QR code is provided on the outside back cover. Available through Justin Neely at the Tribal Language Dept. or the artist, Minisa Crumbo.

Excerpt from CPN Family Reunion:

Hello, how are you all?   =   Bozho, ni je na jayek?

My name is Dawn Woman.   =   Wabaksekwe ndezhnekas.

I am enrolled Citizen Potwatomi.   =   Shishibeyek ndebendagwes. 

I come from Mounds, Oklahoma.   =   Mounds, Oklahoma ndoch bya.

My clan is Thunder.   =   Jigwe o ndodem.

Collaboration Results in New Childrens Book (CPN)

To the Stars Through Art: A History of Art Collecting in Kansas Public Schools, 1900-1950

Title: Eagle Dance

Artist: Woody Crumbo

Culture: Native American; Citizen Potawatomi

Date: mid-20th-Century

Crumbo explores in his art the traditions and ceremonies of his own tribe as well as those of the Creek, Sioux, and Kiowa nations, and says of his work, "I have always painted with the desire of developing Indian art so that it may be judged on art standards rather on its value as a curio—I am attempting to record Indian customs and legends now, while they are alive, to make them a part of the great American culture before these, too, become lost, only to be fragmentarily pieced together by fact and supposition."

To the Stars Through Art: A History of Art Collecting in Kansas Public Schools, 1900-1950

Studio Palette

The studio palette at work!

On the Longhouse Path

 

3 Sisters Garden

Potawatomi Garden Vocabulary:

Beans = kojesek (koe-jess-uck)

Blueberries = min

Corn = ndamen (mdom-in)

Earth = sekmek (suge-muk)

Feast = wewesnakewin

Fire = shkode (sh-ko-day)

Garden = Gtegan (get-tuh-gone)

Gourd = shishigwIn

Moon = tpukises

Mother Earth = Sekmekwe (suge-muk-kway)

Pumpkin = wapkon

Red = mskwa (muh-shkwa)

Sister = nwidgeko

Smoke = bkwe (bek-way)

South = we’jgzhate’k

Squash = kwesmen (kwes-men)

Strawberries = demen (day-men)

Summer = Niben (nee-ben)

Three = nswe

Water = mbish

Wild Rice = (meh-no-men)

Wind = noden (no-den)

Potawatomi Sacred Plants Vocabulary:

Cedar = kishki

Sage = wabshkebyek

Sweetgrass = wishkpemishkos

Tobacco = se’ma

CPN Family Reunion

The CPN FAMILY REUNION CHILDREN’S BOOK, published this summer by the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe of Oklahoma, is written and illustrated by Potawatomi artist Minisa Crumbo. A QR code is provided on the outside back cover. Available through Justin Neely at the Tribal Language Dept. or the artist, Minisa Crumbo.

Excerpt from CPN Family Reunion:

Hello, how are you all?   =   Bozho, ni je na jayek?

My name is Dawn Woman.   =   Wabaksekwe ndezhnekas.

I am enrolled Citizen Potwatomi.   =   Shishibeyek ndebendagwes. 

I come from Mounds, Oklahoma.   =   Mounds, Oklahoma ndoch bya.

My clan is Thunder.   =   Jigwe o ndodem.

Collaboration Results in New Childrens Book (CPN)