Sequoyah National Research Center

04/13/2026

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

04/07/2026

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

03/30/2026

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.

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...

03/24/2026

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

03/04/2026

“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.”

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

02/28/2026

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!

02/27/2026

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!

02/06/2026

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.

Discover the unwavering strength of the Chickasaw Nation amid the arduous events leading to the forced removal from their ancestral homeland.

01/12/2026

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.

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.

01/05/2026

Dr. Littlefield spoke to the Cherokee Phoenix about the proposed State of Sequoyah 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

12/10/2025

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.