AV# 67884
500 Nations: 7. Roads Across the Plains [ Struggle for the West ] / 8. Attack on Culture (CC)


500 Nations Series


Digital Video Disc - 46/48 minutes - Color - 1994



This eight-part series explores Native American history before and after the arrival of Europeans. After looking at the Chumash people of California, histories of the horse cultures of the Great Plains, of Black Kettle, White Antelope, Sitting Bull, Craz y Horse and the massacre at Sand Creek by Colonel Chivington’s militia are related in "Roads Across the Plains". Legal attacks on native ways are described in "Attack on Culture", including confiscation and selling of native communal lands after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and Geronimo of the Apache people were defeated. The Oklahoma Land Rush is seen from the Indian point of view. DVD includes English, French and Spanish subtitles, featurettes. Produced and directed by Jack Leust ig; hosted by Kevin Costner, narrated by Gregory Harrison. CD-ROM study guide available. See also vhs, AT # 89877 and # 89878. Tig Productions. Closed captioned.


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