LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Sequoyah National Research Center is hosting the film screening “More Than a Medal” at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 16 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts building at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The screening is in partnership with the World War One Valor Medals Review and the George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War.
The documentary film produced by Lame Deer Films focuses on the stories of an African American World War I veteran and an Asian American World War I veteran and the work that the Valor Medals Review Task Force is conducting. The Task Force is reviewing the military records of service members who were African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Jewish American and Native American.
To qualify, the service member must have received a Distinguished Service Cross/Navy Cross and/or the French Croix de Guerre with Palm and/or been recommended for a Medal of Honor but was downgraded. Two hundred and fourteen service members have qualified for review, including 23 Native Americans.
SNRC has supported the research of the VMR Task Force concerning Native Americans in conjunction with the Modern Warriors of World War I project. The 23 Native American soldiers were members of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Comanche Nation, Muscogee Nation, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Oneida Nation, Ottawa/Odawa, Osage Nation, Pueblo of Acoma, White Earth Nation (Chippewa) and Yakima Nation.
The Sequoyah National Research Center houses the world’s largest collection of Native American expression. Located at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, SNRC is a unique facility dedicated to the collection, preservation, and access of all forms of Native North American expression and has served as an archive for Native Americans since 1983.
For more information, contact Erin Fehr at 501-916-6098 or email ehfehr@ualr.edu.
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