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News Release
Sequoyah Research
Center
News Release
April
19, 2006
Contact
501-371-7585
SRC Becomes Archives for
the Trail of Tears Association
The
National Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) has named the Sequoyah
Research Center
the official
archives for its records and related materials. The
TOTA is a nine-state organization, including Arkansas,
which assists the National Park Service in documenting, interpreting,
and
marking the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, which reaches from
North Carolina to
Oklahoma.
At its Fall
2005 meeting at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, the
TOTA Advisory Council
voted to make the SRC its official repository, contingent upon a formal
proposal from the Center. SRC Director
Daniel Littlefield presented the proposal at the Spring 2006 meeting in
Memphis
on April 18, and
the Board took final action.
The SRC has
established the Trail of Tears Association Collection, which presently
contains
the papers of the Arkansas Chapter of the Trail of Tears as well as the
papers
of Bobbie Heffington, who has been a
member of the TOTA Advisory Council for more than a decade. The
collection will ultimately also contain materials generated by the
chapters in
other states—Oklahoma,
Missouri, Illinois,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina,
Georgia,
and Alabama—as
well as the
papers of individuals who have served the organization.
The Trail
of Tears Association Collection complements the nation’s largest
collection of
historical research materials related to Indian removal now housed in
the SRC.
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