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From the Desk of
Assistant Chief Gary Batton
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STAR students rewarded
Bishinik April 2008
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STAR students rewarded
From the Desk of Assistant Chief Gary Batton
Chief Pyle and the Tribal Council started one of the Choctaw Nation’s newest programs, Success Through Academic Recognition, or STAR, to encourage children to achieve educational success by rewarding those students who make A’s and B’s as well as those who have a perfect attendance. About half of the eligible Choctaw students grades 2 -12 in the 85 participating school districts in the Choctaw Nation earned awards in the first semester of the STAR Incentive Program. In the 10 ½-county area, there were 515 students with perfect attendance, 702 with straight A’s and 1,201 with all A’s and B’s. Each of the students received an award certificate and gift card as a reward for their excellence.
This was an inaugural semester for the STAR program, and participating schools submitted the achievements of eligible students to the administrative offices in Durant. The awards were delivered to the students last month. The Chief, Council and I appreciate all of the schools who assisted the Choctaw Nation in showing appreciation to the students for their exemplary work.
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Websites offer films and gift shop items
Bishinik May 2008
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Websites offer films and gift shop items
From the Desk of
Assistant Chief Gary Batton
The Choctaw Nation continues to improve access to information for tribal members around the world. A couple of new features available on the Internet are choctawstore.com and choctawcinema.com. The Choctaw Store has clothing, blankets and novelty items for sale, and the Choctaw cinema site has some films you may find interesting about the Choctaw Nation and the Code Talkers.
I also encourage you to go to the official website, choctawnation.com, to see updates on what is happening in the tribe. Currently, the Chief and I are asking for help from people across the United States – we need you to contact your Senators and Representatives and ask them to co-sponsor legislation to award medals to Indian Code Talkers.
Two hectic days were recently spent going office-to-office talking to Congressmen and Senators from several states. We met with no negative comments about HR 4544 or S 2681, yet all of the offices wanted to hear from constituents within their state. This is where you come in. Please look over the information that Chief Pyle is sharing with you in his column and help the Choctaw Nation in this important effort.
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