An essay by Dr. Daniel Littlefield, director of UALR’s Sequoyah National Research, is part of a new traveling exhibit, “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas,” which opened this week at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

The exhibit is the product of a number of years of planning and work by NAMI, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Center.

Littlefield was a member of the planning team who determined the structure and content of the exhibit.  His essay, “The Cherokee Freedmen:  Cherokee Citizens by Treaty,” appears in the exhibit’s section on community.

In the 1970s and 1980s Littlefield published four books on African-descended people in Indian Country and is today considered one of the world’s leading authorities on African-Indian history.

“Since the early days of U. S. history, Native Americans and African Americans have been linked by fate, by choice, and by blood,” said Kevin Gover, director of NMIA, said of the new exhibit.

“Terrible and remarkable things have passed over and between our communities, as well as the communities we have created together,” Lonnie Bunch, director of NMAAHC.