Native Americans’ forced march in the 1800s ran through the Arkansas capital. The city is now grappling with how to memorialize this tragic past
published in the early 2000s put it this way: “It can be safely said that [the Little Rock area] was the site of more concentrated activities related to the removal of the five large southeastern tribes than any other place.”Yet, here we stand, Aaron Boswell and I, on a patch of brickwork. Grass is popping up from the mortar.
“I’d like to see us include a QR code on each sign,” he says. “People could use them to bring up movies and updated information on their phones. And that wouldn’t cost very much.” “That’s Main Street—the Trail of Tears went right down that street,” he says, a bit incredulously. “I look out there and I see the streetcars and the people walking by and I think to myself, ‘How many people died out there? How many were beaten or sick?’”
Whatever ends up growing on the north shore of the Arkansas River, Aaron Boswell wants it to tell a three-fold story.
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