At 6:30 p.m., the Arkansas Educational Television Network will re-air its new documentary “The Long Walk,” detailing the removal of the Choctaw tribes to Indian territory in what became Oklahoma. The Choctaw were first to walk what became the Trail of Tears. It first aired on Friday, Nov. 19.

“Arkansas is a the pivoptal state for removal,” said Dr. Daniel Littlefield, director of UALR’s Sequoyah National Research Center, which is credited for much of the research for the documentary. UALR students and faculty also provided some of the voices for historical figures featured in the production.

The project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Department of Arkansas Heritage and was produced in cooperation with the Sequoyah National Research Center, whose UALR offices border the Old Southwest Trail — now Asher Avenue — the route the Choctaw walked.

The Sequoyah Center holds the largest assemblage of Native American expression in the world. Its  mission is to acquire and preserve the writings and ideas of Native North Americans by collecting the written word and art of Native Americans and creating a research atmosphere that invites indigenous peoples to make the center an archival home for their creative work.