Biskinik

Biskinik
June 2023 issue
TypeMonthly newspaper
OwnerChoctaw Nation
Founded1978; 48 years ago (1978)
LanguageChoctaw and
English
CityChoctaw Nation Tribal
Complex
Durant, Oklahoma
CountryUnited States
OCLC number28288034
Websitechoctawnation.com/news/biskinik

The Biskinik is the monthly newspaper of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. It is sent free to registered Choctaw Nation tribal members upon request. It is published in Durant, Oklahoma by the Choctaw Nation. It was first published in 1978. The Library of Congress shows a record of its publication from 1978 to 1981 and from 1983 to the present.

The publication shares the name Biskinik with the Choctaw word for the yellow-bellied sapsucker, a speckled, scissortail species of woodpecker. According to Choctaw legend, the Bishinik was one of two birds to escape the Great Flood and was known as the "little Chahta news bird". The bird was said to warn Choctaws when someone was approaching by tapping out messages on trees.

References

  1. ↑ Bishinik Archived January 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at Choctaw Nation Website (Retrieved April 8, 2010)
  2. 1 2 About this Newspaper: Bishinik at Library of Congress (Retrieved April 8, 2010)
  3. ↑ Hughes, Bethany (2023). "Little Chahta News Bird: Indigenous Periodicals and the Performance of Nationhood". American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism. 33 (2): 172–191. doi:10.1353/amp.2023.a911655.
  4. 1 2 3 Bishinik, The Little Chahta News Bird Archived January 20, 2025, at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved April 8, 2010)