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The Arkansas River’s Big Timbers region reflects a complex history of Western expansion, Indigenous displacement

Cottonwoods dot the landscape near the Arkansas River on the Rogers family farm near Lamar in the area of Prowers County once ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

ARKANSAS A-Z: Native Arkansan’s book explores racial issues

Thorpe” is a 1967 novel by Union County native Mary Dutton that explores race relations through the eyes of its narrator, a young girl named Thorpe Torrance. The book received positive reviews and ...
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New exhibit of Native American artifacts from Spiro, Oklahoma mounds in Bentonville

The Museum of Native American History in Bentonville now has one of the largest collections in the world of artifacts from the Spiro Mounds, which were located along the Arkansas River in Eastern ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

North Arkansas College’s Tompkins returning to native Hope as UA community college chancellor

Ricky Tompkins, vice president for technical education and workforce development at North Arkansas College in Harrison and a Hope native, will return to his hometown to lead the University of Arkansas ...
Killeen Daily Herald

Arkansas native picked cotton after school; graduated college and ROTC; served 6 years active duty

BARTLETT — Former U.S. Army Capt. Dave McCoy never was in it for the long haul, but the small-town Arkansas native says joining the military helped provide him a better life and he believes public ...