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American Experience: We Shall Remain

Series: American Experience
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Episodes
5
Rating
TVG
Year
2009
Language
English
Publisher
PBS

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From the award-winning PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE comes WE SHALL REMAIN, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.

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Episodes

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1. American Experience: We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower

1h 30m

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After the Mayflower - In 1621, Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

2. American Experience: We Shall Remain: Tecumseh's Vision

1h 30m

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Tecumseh's Vision - In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent. After his death he would live on as a potent symbol of Native pride and pan Indian identity.

3. American Experience: We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears

1h 30m

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Trail of Tears - Though the Cherokee embraced “civilization” and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.

4. American Experience: We Shall Remain: Geronimo

1h 30m

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Geronimo - As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.

5. American Experience: We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee

1h 30m

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Wounded Knee - In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.

Extended Details

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Artists

Benjamin Brattactor