LibGuides: Treatment of Native Americans: Media

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Fight No More Forever: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (01:25:42) This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West. Included in this program are balanced, up-to-date portrayals of many of the most memorable characters from America's past, including George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Brigham Young, and Chief Joseph. Part of the series The West: A Film by Stephen Ives.
Ghost Dance: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (59:12) This program examines how mining and industrial expansion changed the West forever, while land rushes and assimilation efforts prolonged the tragedy for Native Americans. Through primary resource materials, viewers explore the West's promise of a better life and learn about a religious movement called the Ghost Dance that swept through dispirited Indian reservations and culminated in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Part of the series The West: A Film by Stephen Ives.
The Long Walk (58:32) During the spring of 1864, more than 6,000 Navajos were marched in the snow to Fort Sumner in New Mexico. They had been starved into submission by volunteer armies of the same settlers led by the famous Indian fighter Kit Carson. Carson's troops, earlier that year, made the first military passage through Canyon De Chelly because the Navajos had been raiding whites who had settled Indian lands in the recently acquired New Mexico territory. The journey to Fort Sumner on what is now know as Route 66 became knows to the Navajos as "The Long Walk."
The People: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (01:22:55) Experience the rich cultural diversity of Native American tribes and the impact that early white explorers had on their lives. In this program, viewers will learn about the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi culture and the successful Pueblo revolt against their Spanish conquerors. First-person accounts bring to life the adventures of early explorers, from Cabeza de Vaca, the first white man to enter the West, to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Sand Creek Massacre: Seven Hours that Changed American History (21:33) On November 29, 1864, Col. John Chivington and 800 troops of the First Colorado Cavalry attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp—massacring women, children, and the elderly. This program introduces the Sand Creek atrocity to viewers in a way that written texts and dramatizations cannot. It consists of oral histories passed down from firsthand accounts through the generations and movingly conveyed by descendants of Native American eyewitnesses. In addition, professional historians of the region and time period give background information on possible causes of, and twisted motivations for, the genocidal slaughter. Informative maps and an impressive array of archival photos are also included.