Learning on ScreenWild West, The (2 Parts)
- Synopsis
- A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage with interviews with historians and writers.
1: The discovery of gold and silver in California, Nevada and Colorado encouraged Americans to move west, encroaching on Indian territory.
2: 1962 was the year of the Homestead Act and implementation of the Pacific Railroad Act. White settlement ultimately led to uprisings by Native Americans, and leaders such as Sitting Bull and George Armstrong Custer emerged.
3: The railroads expanded at the cost of the bufflalo population of the Great Plains, crucial to the Indians’ way of life. William F Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill’, emerged as a renowned buffalo hunter. The east and west sections of the Transcontinental railway were linked in 1869.
4: Indian homelands dwindled following the east-west railway link, as prospectors and farmers poured in. The final struggles took place in the Black Hills of Dakota, land sacred to the Cheyenne, the Arapaho and the Lakota Sioux. Indian hopes lay in their warriors Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
5: General Custer and Crazy Horse were the legendary leaders of the ultimate struggle known as Custer’s Last Stand. Even though they the Indians won the battle, repercussions resulted in the formation of reservations and millions of acres of land were lost to the Indians.
6: Under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Big Foot, Native Americans desperately attempted to hold onto their land and culture, the Ghost Dance as the whites called it. In 1890 the Sioux leader Sitting Bull was murdered, and two weeks later at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 250 people were killed in the final action of the Indian wars. - Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min.
- Year of production
- 1995
- Availability
- Sale; 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume
- Notes
- Broadcast on Channel 4 in six parts from 14 May 95.
Volume 1 comprises parts 1-3; Volume 2, parts 4-6. - Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- Indians of North & South America; United States of America
Credits
Sections
- Title
- Westward ho (1845-61)
- Synopsis
- 1: The discovery of gold and silver in California, Nevada and Colorado encouraged Americans to move west, encroaching on Indian territory.
- Title
- War comes to the plains (1862-65)
- Synopsis
- 2: 1962 was the year of the Homestead Act and implementation of the Pacific Railroad Act. White settlement ultimately led to uprisings by Native Americans, and leaders such as Sitting Bull and George Armstrong Custer emerged.
- Title
- Railroad and the buffalo, The (1865-69)
- Synopsis
- 3: The railroads expanded at the cost of the bufflalo population of the Great Plains, crucial to the Indians' way of life. William F Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', emerged as a renowned buffalo hunter. The east and west sections of the Transcontinental railway wer
- Title
- War for the Black Hills, The (1869-76)
- Synopsis
- 4: Indian homelands dwindled following the east-west railway link, as prospectors and farmers poured in. The final struggles took place in the Black Hills of Dakota, land sacred to the Cheyenne, the Arapaho and the Lakota Sioux. Indian hopes lay in their
- Title
- Custer and Crazy Horse (1876-89)
- Synopsis
- 5: General Custer and Crazy Horse were the legendary leaders of the ultimate struggle known as Custer's Last Stand. Even though they the Indians won the battle, repercussions resulted in the formation of reservations and millions of acres of land were los
- Title
- Ghost dance (1889-93)
- Synopsis
- 6: Under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Big Foot, Native Americans desperately attempted to hold onto their land and culture, the Ghost Dance as the whites called it. In 1890 the Sioux leader Sitting Bull was murdered, and two weeks later at Wounded K
Production Company
Sponsor
- Name
Channel Four Television
- Phone
- 071-396 4444
- Address
- LONDON
SW1P 2TX
Distributor
- Name
Channel 4 Video
- Web
- http://www.channel4.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7396 4444
- Fax
- 020 7306 8350
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road
London SW1P 2TX
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