Daniel Littlefield, Ph.D.
Director of Sequoyah National Research Center
College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education
- Expertise:
- Black Indians
- Indian Territory
- Native Americans
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., holds a Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University and was a college classroom teacher from 1960 to 2005. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock since 1970, and from 1983 to 2005, while teaching, he was director of the American Native Press Archives, the world’s largest archival repository of Native American newspapers and periodicals. In 2005, he left teaching and became director of the Sequoyah National Research Center, which houses the archives and other major collections.
In addition, he has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in the Institute of Southern and Negro History at the Johns Hopkins University; has been a visiting professor of history at the University of Arizona, where he was assistant editor of Arizona and the West; and has taught as a visiting professor of English at the University of Alabama and as a distinguished visiting professor of ethno-history at Colgate University.
His most recent research concerns the Dawes Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and Indian removal. He has served as a member of the Cherokee Nation’s Great State of Sequoyah Commission and a member of the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Humanities Council. In 2001, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame. In 2014 the Arkansas Historical Association honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his co-founding of the Sequoyah National Research Center and his promotion of Arkansas history. At the end of the Spring 2023 semester, he will have completed sixty-three years in his teacher-scholar career.
He is also a scholar, having published scores of articles and the following books in Native studies, of which he is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor: An Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal (2011), J. W. Parins, co-editor; Chickasaw Removal (2010) with Amanda L Paige and Fuller L. Bumpers; Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance (1996); Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935, James W. Parins, co-editor (1995); Tales of the Bark Lodges by Hen-Toh, Wyandot, James W. Parins, co-editor (1995); Ke-ma-ha: Omaha Stories by Francis La Flesche, co-editor with James W. Parins (1995); The Fus Fixico Letters by Alex Posey, Carol Hunter, co-editor (1993); Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist (1992), The Life of Okah Tubbee (1988); American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1971-1985, James W. Parins, co-author (1986); American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1925-1970, James W. Parins, co-author (1986); A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924, Supplement, James W. Parins, co-author (1985); American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924, James W. Parins, co-author (1984); A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1925, James W. Parins, co-author (1981); The Chickasaw Freedmen (1980); Africans and Creeks (1979); The Cherokee Freedmen (1978); Africans and Seminoles (1977); and others, as well as paperback editions of some of the above titles.