Sequoyah National Research Center

A film crew with the Seminole Nation is here today to interview Dr. Littlefield about Seminole Removal through Arkansas. They have been using our website Journey of Survival to locate important sites to visit in the state and plan to film more on their way back to Oklahoma.

Mark you calendars for June 27 to attend the Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association as they mark the grave of James Downing, a survivor of the forced removal of Cherokee people. Dr. Littlefield will be the featured speaker for the event.

Oklahoma TOTA chapter to meet and mark grave of James Downing on June 27 The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will hold its annual meeting from 10 a.m. to noon, June 27 at the D. D. Etchison Indian Methodist Church, 412

We have extended our Summer Internship application deadline to this Friday, April 17. Please share with any interested students, who are tribally-affiliated.

Are you a Native student looking for an internship? Apply here: https://ualr.edu/sequoyah/summerinternship/. Deadline extended to April 17.

We are hard at work on our upcoming Modern Warriors of World War I website. We recently sat down with Sean Clancy at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / ArkansasOnline.com to talk about our project and our hopes for a summer website launch.

Doc­u­ment­ing their ser­vice | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette On Aug. 5, 1918, Robert Emil Bruce wrote a let­ter to the super­in­tend­ent of the Carl­isle Indian School in Carl­isle, Pa. World War I was raging and Bruce was in France, serving in the U.S. Army’s 116th Engin­eers, Headquar­ters Detach­ment. He...

Are you a Native student looking for an internship? Apply here: https://ualr.edu/sequoyah/summerinternship/. Deadline April 10.

“To our knowledge, this will be the only website of its kind,” Fehr said. “This unique resource will expand scholarship, commemorate service, and celebrate Native American stories by providing access to primary resources.”

UA Little Rock Leads Nation in Preserving Native American World War I History More than 12,000 American Indian and Alaska Native men served in World War I, yet many of their stories have long been scattered or overlooked. Now, the University of Arkansas ... UA Little Rock Leads Nation in Preserving Native American World War I History

UA Little Rock alumni and former SNRC fellow Roy Boney, Jr. (Cherokee) was the featured artist at the OKC Thunder game last night. We love to see former students doing big things!

Assistant Director & Archivist Erin Fehr was in Salt Lake City to speak at the Music Library Association conference. It was held down the street from the FamilySearch Library, where she found three of Dr. Littlefield’s books in their library!

SNRC Director Dr. Daniel Littlefield shared his expertise with the The Chickasaw Nation in their new documentary Chickasaw Removal, Part 1. He was interviewed to add historical context to the story and appears on screen. He will also be included in part 2 of the documentary, which is still in production.

Chickasaw.tv | Chickasaw Removal, Part 1 Discover the unwavering strength of the Chickasaw Nation amid the arduous events leading to the forced removal from their ancestral homeland.