2026 Challenge Bowl: Dates and Location

MVSKOKE CULTURE

2026 Challenge Bowl

OKMULGEE, OK — The Muscogee Nation Challenge Bowl returns! Each year Muscogee (Creek) Nation employees and community members prepare for the competition by having monthly core group sessions to prepare the study guides, competition questions, and conducting training sessions for volunteers. The Challenge Bowl brings the schools, community, employees, and citizens together with the common goal of developing tribal pride within our youth.

The purpose of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Challenge Bowl is to promote learning about Mvskoke culture, society, history, government and language using traditional values as the foundation. The Challenge Bowl was designed to teach our students how to study and learn about our history, and to respect those willing to teach them. The Challenge Bowl Committee aims to have a competition unlike any other academic bowl in the Nation and has made a commitment to exhibit positive role models, to demonstrate good citizenship, and to instill a sense of tribal pride that would carry on throughout one’s lifetime, well beyond the days of our competition. Our goal is to teach good manners, respect of others, self-esteem, and to show honor in defeat while playing for the love of learning, not solely to win.

JOM Office Availability

The JOM Office will be closed on Friday, February 6, February 13, and February 20, 2026 as we will be hosting the 2026 Challenge Bowl at The College of the Muscogee Nation. Staff will be out of the office for the full day on each event date. Normal business operations will resume on the following business day after each event.

Friday, 2/20 @ 8am
2026 Challenge Bowl
College of the Muscogee Nation

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