CPN Services Changed Foster Child’s Life

Samantha Masquat credits the Tribe with life-changing services

  • Samantha Masquat at Scissortail Counseling Services, her mental health and substance abuse counseling center. Photo provided by CPN
    Samantha Masquat at Scissortail Counseling Services, her mental health and substance abuse counseling center. Photo provided by CPN

    SHAWNEE, Okla. (March 9, 2026) — For Samantha Masquat, being a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (CPN) has positively changed her life in innumerable ways.

    As a young child, Masquat was made a ward of the state, unable to remain in the care of her parents. Eventually, she was placed with her grandmother, with the CPN tribal court supervising her case.

    “I finally had a consistent caseworker thr…