Please join us as we celebrate Native American Heritage Month on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 6pm in Fine Arts, Room 157 (next door to SNRC). The screening will be followed by a short Q&A with SNRC Director Dr. Littlefield and Assistant Director Erin Fehr.

THE AMERICAN BUFFALO is the biography of an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales. The series, which has been in production for four years, will take viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal’s evolution, its significance to the Great Plains and, most importantly,its relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.

For more information, contact Erin Fehr at ehfehr@ualr.edu or 501-916-3336.

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Please join us Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 6:30p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall for the film screening of More Than a Medal. The film explores the work of the Valor Medals Review Task Force at the George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War. The 25-minute documentary, More Than a Medal, produced by Lame Deer Films in cooperation with the Robb Centre, interweaves the efforts of the researchers working against time, untold heroic stories of courage on the battlefields of France, on the seas and in the air, and the experience of modern-day descendants as they maintain cautious hope of recognition.

The Valor Medals Review Task Force was mandated by Congress to review the military records of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Jewish American, and Native American servicemembers of World War I to determine if they should have received a Medal of Honor, but were overlooked due to race. To be eligible for review, a veteran must have received a Distinguished Service Cross/Navy Cross and/or the French Croix de Guerre with Palm and/or been recommended for a Medal of Honor.

To date, researchers have identified 214 servicemembers — 105 Jewish Americans, 73 African Americans, 23 Native Americans, 12 Hispanic Americans and one Asian American — who have qualified for review.

For more information, please contact Erin Fehr at ehfehr@ualr.edu or 501-916-3336.

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Little Rock, AR – In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, a Black Indian and Native American Heritage Month Fair will be held on Saturday, November 10. The event will take place 10:00am to 2:00pm on the University Plaza Shopping Center parking lot at 5820 Asher Avenue, at the corner of Asher and University Avenues.

The Fair is sponsored by Jason Irby Innovation Foundation, University District Partnership, ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ Little Rock, Arkansas National Guard Museum, Black History Commission of Arkansas, Little Rock Racial & Cultural Diversity Commission, and Sequoyah National Research Center.

The day’s event will feature Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation’s Armed Forces, a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian about American Indians’ and Alaska Natives’ service in America’s wars. Also featured will be short educational talks about the Trail of Tears through Arkansas, slavery and Choctaw and Chickasaw removal, and the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes. Other features will include arts and crafts, food trucks, tours of the Coleman Creek Trail of Tears Park adjacent to the Fair site, and exhibits.

Exhibitors will include Black History Commission of Arkansas, Sequoyah National Research Center, Arkansas Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, City of Little Rock Diversity and Ethnicity Commission, Secretary of State, and others.

A schedule of talks and tours will be available on site. Admission to all events is free, and parking is close and free. For more information, email Allison Gwinup at axgwinup@ualr.edu, or call 501-683-7356.

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