African Americans constitute 15.1 percent of Arkansas’s population, according to the 2020 census, and they h...

Caddo Indians enter written history in chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition, which describe encounter...

The Europeans named the Cherokee as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. (The other four were the Chickasaw, Choc...

Heading east, the ancestral Chickasaw crossed Arkansas looking for a new homeland at some point in prehistory....

The introduction of the Chinese to Arkansas can be traced back to their roots as a sojourners’ society—men...

The Choctaw are of the Western Muskogean language stock, which is also the same stock as the Chickasaw. When f...

Members of many tribes displaced from homelands east of the Mississippi River temporarily resided in Arkansas ...

German immigrants played a significant role in the development of Arkansas’s economy and in the founding of ...

Though small in number compared to other immigrant groups, Greeks and Greek Americans in Arkansas have had a n...

The Hmong are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia, and their presence in Arkansas stems from the evacuation of...

The peopling of Arkansas has taken place since prehistoric times, beginning with the migration of early Native...

Irish migration to Arkansas took place throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three distinct set...

Few people associate Arkansas with Italian immigration to America, assuming immigrants settled only in the urb...

Jews have always been a tiny minority of Arkansas’s population, yet their history in the state is long and d...

The Koroa are one of many “small tribes” of the southeastern United States that are mentioned briefly in h...

The term “multiculturalism” is usually employed to describe the promotion of multiple cultural traditions,...

Arkansas was home to Native Americans long before Europeans arrived. The first explorers met Indians whose anc...

The Osage lived in several villages located in southwest Missouri when Europeans began to explore and settle t...

The Quapaw are members of the Dhegiha Siouan language group, which also includes the Osage, the Omaha, the Pon...

Among the immigrant Native Americans who lived in territorial Arkansas were several Shawnee communities. They ...

St. Joseph Colony, covering land throughout Conway, Faulkner, and Pope counties, served Roman Catholics living...