Dec. 2024 Biskinik

Edition Archives:December 2024

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Chahta Foundation Scholarship Recipients pose holding awards.

Scholarships awarded to Choctaw tribal members in gaming and hospitality educational endeavors

The Choctaw Nation has long supported the education goals of its tribal members. The Chahta foundation awarded 15 scholarships for degrees in fields that benefit the gaming and hospitality industry.

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Honor guard lines up with guns for the 21-gun salute.

Choctaw Nation celebrates Veterans Day

The Choctaw Nation shows its pride in Chahta veterans and everything they sacrificed so that we can be here today.

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A collage of YAB images over the years.

Choctaw Nation’s YAB celebrates 20 years of empowering future leaders

The Youth Advisory Board recently celebrated 20 years of instilling leadership skills, community involvement and personal growth among its members.

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A large growth of rivercane.

The fight to protect native rivercane

Rivercane has been a crucial part of Choctaw culture and artwork. In this story, we highlight the life of rivercane and its importance to the environment.

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A large group poses fpr the camera.

Chahta Anumpa Aiikhvna celebrates graduates from two of its programs

The Choctaw Nation continues its mission to strengthen its sovereignty and keep the Chahta language alive by graduating 25 from two programs.

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Two men attempt to stack cups while wearing Drunk Buster goggles.

Make a plan this holiday season, don’t drive impaired

Drinking and riving can have serious impacts that reverberate through a community. Make a plan this holiday season to drive safely.

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Dancers at the powow.

Choctaw Nation Powwow 2024

Over 650 dancers from 65 tribes across the United States came together at the 19th Annual Choctaw Powwow.

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Leadership Speaks

What is a gift?

The Webster’s Dictionary states a gift is “something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation.” A gift could be given as an expression of honor. Matthew 2:11 reads, “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him; and when they […]

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Remember the reason for the season

The most wonderful time of the year is upon us – and not for holiday shopping, gift giving and the like. This is the time of year when we celebrate the birth of Christ, and all the blessings God has bestowed upon us, our families and the Choctaw Nation.

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Robert Karr

District 11, December 2024

Nittak Hullo Chito Na Yukpa! (Merry Christmas). My hope is that everyone in District 11 has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Spending time with family and celebrating our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’s birth always makes this time of year special. It’s great to see all the progress going on in District […]

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