The final episode of PBS American Experience series We Shall Remain brings the series to more contemporary times with events taking place in 1973 at what is known as “Wounded Knee II.” Themes prominent in the previous episode-leadership, resistance, self-determination, sovereignty, the impact of assimilation policy-are obvious again in the actions and beliefs of the [...]

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Episode Four of the PBS American Experience series We Shall Remain explored the story of Geronimo, the end of Indian Wars, the beginning of the reservation system, and the establishment of the first Indian boarding school.Â
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Episode Three of the PBS American Experience series We Shall Remain explored the story of Indian Removal and, in this case, the Cherokee Trail of Tears in the late 1830s.
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Episode Two of the PBS American Experience seriesWe Shall Remain explores Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa the Shawnee Prophet, and their efforts to create a Native American confederacy in the Ohio River Valley during the early 19th Century.

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