At the most recent Tribal Council Meeting on Thursday April 17, The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Ogitchedaw Society presented Tribal Member Emily Day an Eagle Feather, honoring her for her hard work for and with the Tribe.

Being a Member of NHBP shows up in Day’s hard work as a senior at Auburn University, where she is studying Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies with a Journalism minor. Additionally, she founded The Native American & Indigenous Alliance at Auburn, and still found time to work as an intern for the Planning Department with her own Tribal Nation. Day will be attending Arizona State University in the fall, pursuing her Master’s in American Indian Studies.

Day was present at the Tribal Council Meeting, alongside Chief Planning Officer Dan Green, to propose the Submission of the 2025 Native American Agriculture Fund Grant, which provides funding to Native ranchers and farmers. This support would be used in opening a bison farm on NHBP Tribal lands. Developing this pilot through Pine Creek Farms, a project that has spent years as just an idea, would strengthen NHBP food sovereignty by providing culturally-meaningful agricultural business ventures for the Tribe.

Her proposal was unanimously accepted by all members of Tribal Council, and after the adjournment of the meeting Day was invited back up by Chairperson Dorie Rios for a special Eagle Feather Presentation. Tribal Member and Ogitchedaw Society Member Doug Taylor performed the ceremony, praising Day’s ongoing efforts in “giving back to the Tribe… in a good way.”

To view the full photo gallery for this event, please click the following link: https://nhbp.passgallery.com/-emilydayeaglefeatherpresentation/gallery