Race:

Native American

James Arcene (1862?–1885)
James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...
Archaic Period
The Archaic Period refers to the time between 9500 and 650 BC in the Native American history of Arkansas. As w...
Battle Mound Site
The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...
John Billy (Execution of)
On April 3, 1874, a Choctaw man named John Billy was executed at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) for the murder ...
Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1835–1890)
Elias Cornelius Boudinot was a mixed-lineage Cherokee lawyer, newspaper editor, and lobbyist. He was active in...
Caddo Indian Memorial
The Caddo Indian Memorial is located on the site of a Native American burial ground on the outskirts of Norman...
Caddo Nation
Caddo Indians enter written history in chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition, which describe encounter...
Carden Bottom
Carden Bottom (also known as Carden’s Bottom or Carden Bottoms) is a rich alluvial flood plain in northeaste...
Casqui (1491?–?)
Casqui was a Native American chief who ruled over a province in northeastern Arkansas in the 1500s. He was the...
Cherokee
The Europeans named the Cherokee as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. (The other four were the Chickasaw, Choc...
Cherokee Boundary Line
aka: Old Cherokee Boundary Line
The Old Cherokee Boundary Line served as the eastern border of the ...
Chickasaw
Heading east, the ancestral Chickasaw crossed Arkansas looking for a new homeland at some point in prehistory....
John Childers (Execution of)
On August 15, 1873, a Cherokee man named John Childers was hanged at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) for the 187...
Choctaw
The Choctaw are of the Western Muskogean language stock, which is also the same stock as the Chickasaw. When f...
Choctaw Boundary Line
Determining the Choctaw Boundary Line and thus the western boundary of Arkansas below the Arkansas River was a...
Choctaw Scrip
Land ownership was the desire of many individuals moving west across the United States in the nineteenth centu...
Crenshaw Site
The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...
Boudinot Crumpton (Execution of)
aka: Bood Burris (Execution of)
Boudinot Crumpton, twenty-two, sometimes known as Bood Burris, was ...
Dalton Period
The Dalton Period extends from 10,500 to 9,900 radiocarbon years ago (circa 8500 to 7900 BC), during which the...
Dehahuit (?–1833)
Dehahuit, hereditary chief of the Kadohadacho Caddo community of Native Americans at the time of the Louisiana...
Delaware
Members of many tribes displaced from homelands east of the Mississippi River temporarily resided in Arkansas ...
Duwali (1756–1839)
aka: Bowl
aka: Bowles
Duwali, also known as the Bowl or Bowles due to the Quapaw meaning ...
Pompey Factor (1849–1928)
Pompey Factor was a scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars. In 1875, he received the Medal of Honor fo...
Factory System
aka: Indian Trading Posts
aka: Indian Factory System
The Indian factory system was a system of trading posts created by ...
Isaac Filmore (Execution of)
On April 3, 1874, a sixteen-year-old Choctaw boy named Isaac Filmore was hanged in Fort Smith (Sebastian Count...
Samuel W. Fooy (Execution of)
On September 3, 1875, a Native American man named Samuel W. Fooy was among the first six men to be executed in...
Fort Smith Conference (1865)
As a diplomatic assembly of Native American delegates and U.S. government officials, the Fort Smith Conference...
Fort Smith Council
The gathering of Native Americans, Arkansas territorial officials, and U.S. government representatives held in...
Doghead Glory (Execution of)
On February 4, 1853, a Native American man named Doghead Glory was executed in Benton County for the murder of...
Guedetonguay (?–?)
aka: Guedelonguay
aka: Quedetongue
Guedetonguay was a Quapaw Indian leader in the mid-eighteenth centu...
Josephine (Jo) Linker Hart (1943–)
Josephine Linker (Jo) Hart, whose Cherokee parents were driven from their farm in Pope County when she was a c...
Head Pots
Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...