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Sequoyah Research
Center
News Release
April
20, 2006
Contact
501-371-7585
Sequoyah Research Center Receives Grant
The Bay and
Paul Foundations of New York recently awarded the
Sequoyah Research
Center
a grant of $9,614.for
production of an animated Trail of Tears feature on DVD.
Production of the animation is the work of
Cherokee artist Roy Boney, Jr., who is the Prairie Band Potawatomi
Nation
Fellow in the Sequoyah
Research
Center
and is pursuing master’s study in the
UALR Art
Department.
Boney will
use the “stop motion animation” method in creating the
five-to-seven minute
feature, which represents the pilot in a series of animations that will
tell
the story of Cherokees who endured their trek west on the Trail of
Tears in the
late 1830s. The first animation will
tell how they were rounded up by the U. S. Army to be placed in
concentrated
encampments called “forts” in preparation for removal to
the West. All dialogue by Cherokee
characters in the
narrative, which is presented from the perspective of a small Cherokee
child,
will be spoken in the Cherokee language with English subtitles
appearing on the
screen.
Boney has
helped produce several animations in both Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek)
languages. His work has been shown at
the Smithsonian Institution and other venues in the United States
and abroad. In addition to his animation
work, he is
illustrator for a comic book series titled Dead
Eyes Open.
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