Soul Survivors

Amid rising tensions of the 1830's in Florida, the Seminole Indians retreat into the darkness of the Everglades swamps rather than be sent to reservations. They are joined by runaway slaves fleeing cruel plantation owners.

In 1872 lands once thought uninhabitable are coveted by the white settlers, traders and miners headed West. In far Northern California the last few bands of Modoc cling to their ancestral lands, trying to live in peace with their new neighbors.

Oregon, a land of towering timber, snow-capped peaks, lush fertile valleys. A land of gold. To the pioneering settlers, it was a garden of Eden. To the Rogue Indians, it was home. Two different peoples, each laying claim to the same territory.