Sequoyah National Research Center

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.

Don't miss this article published in the latest issue of American Indian Magazine titled "Bringing Their Stories to Life: An Archive Aims to Preserve the Histories of 12,000 Native Veterans who served in World War I." Dr. William C. Meadows did a fantastic job highlighting our Modern Warriors of World War I project.

Bringing Their Stories to Life: An Archive Aims to Preserve the Histories of 12,000 Native Veterans who Served in World War I | NMAI Magazine The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Sequoyah National Research Center is endeavoring to preserve and share the histories of 12,000 Native veterans who served in World War I.

Dr. Littlefield spoke to the Cherokee Phoenix about the proposed State of Sequoyah that could have been.

Sequoyah: The Indian state that could have been Tribes forced from their ancestral lands by the U.S. government to present-day Oklahoma envisioned a state of their own 120 years ago, but widespread political opposition ultimately proved an insurmountable

Thanks to the generous donation from the Daughters of the American Revolurton, we have been building up our library this year with Native-authored books. Our most recent purchase focused on Native American cookbooks, and we had to add Sean Sherman’s newest cookbook to our library.