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Sequoyah Research
Center
News Release
April
25, 2006
Contact
501-371-7585
SRC Receives Third Trail of Tears Grant
The
Arkansas Humanities Council has awarded a grant of $5000 to the
Sequoyah Research
Center for
preproduction work on a
short animated feature film on Muscogee (Creek) removal through Arkansas.
Project
director is Roy Boney, Jr., who is
pursuing graduate study in the UALR Art
Department
and holds the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Fellowship in the Center. The grant will support Boney’s
preproduction
work for the animated feature in DVD format: research,
script writing, and creation of
storyboards.
The feature
will tell the story of the Muscogee (Creek) Trail of Tears through
Arkansas during 1836 and 1837, primarily the
overland
route from Memphis to Fort Smith. All Muscogee (Creek) characters will speak in
Muscogee language with
English subtitles.
Boney has
helped produce several Native language animated film features,
including one in
Muscogee. His work has been shown at the
Smithsonian Institution and other such prestigious venues in the United States
and abroad.
Within the
past year, the Sequoyah
Research
Center
has received funds from the National Park Service to enhance the Indian
removal
pages on its web site and from the Bay and Paul Foundations for an
animated
feature on the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
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