Films for the Humanities and Sciences

"Wilderness"

Archaeological and historical evidence confirms that Native Americans lived in highly developed societies—and that vastly more tribe members died as a result of European settlement than had previously been suspected. In this program, historian William Cronon of Yale University, author Alvin Josephy, and others examine the physical, spiritual, and cultural destruction of the Native Americans, beginning with the 17th-century Puritan prejudices that helped generate the pernicious image of the "savage Indian" and ending with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. (50 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10374
Copyright date: ©1991
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-1579-5

Part of the Series : Savagery and the American Indian


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