500 Nations - Season 1

500 Nations - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesApr 20, 1995 - Apr 28, 1995

Episodes

The Ancestors: Early Cultures of North America
Season 1Episode 145 min

The Ancestors: Early Cultures of North America

This volume takes a look at the massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee then flashes back to examine societies of Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers.
Apr 20, 1995
Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs
Season 1Episode 245 min

Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs

The rise and fall of the Aztec Empire is examined from their defeat of the Toltec regime to Cortez' ultimate conquest of the Aztecs and all of Mexico.
Apr 20, 1995
Clash of Cultures: The People Who Met Columbus
Season 1Episode 345 min

Clash of Cultures: The People Who Met Columbus

Columbus' arrival and the subsequent defeat of the Caribbean tribes are chronicled, along with De Soto's destruction of the Southeast tribes such as the Coosa and the Mobile nation.
Apr 21, 1995
Invasion of the Coast: The First English Settlements
Season 1Episode 445 min

Invasion of the Coast: The First English Settlements

An examination of the Native Americans of New England and their experiences with the British who settled at Jamestown and Plymouth. Includes background to the first Thanksgiving.
Apr 21, 1995
Cauldron of War: Iroquois Democracy and the American Revolution
Season 1Episode 545 min

Cauldron of War: Iroquois Democracy and the American Revolution

Hostilities between Native Americans and European settlers erupt across the eastern part of the continent as the colonists prepare for revolution. Pontiac's siege of Detroit and the splintering of the Iroqois Confederacy are examined.
Apr 27, 1995
Removal: War and Exile in the East
Season 1Episode 645 min

Removal: War and Exile in the East

After Tecumseh's Shawnee people side with the British in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, forcing all tribes to move into "Indian Territory," along the famed trail of tears.
Apr 27, 1995
Roads Across the Plains: Struggle for the West
Season 1Episode 745 min

Roads Across the Plains: Struggle for the West

The twin gold rushes in California and Colorado bring hordes of settlers into the Western Territories where such Native American leaders as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Kiowa chief Satanta organize futile resistance.
Apr 28, 1995
Attack on Culture: 'I Will Fight No More Forever'
Season 1Episode 845 min

Attack on Culture: 'I Will Fight No More Forever'

The Indian resistance of the late 19th-century is examined, including Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the Apache leader Cochise and Geronimo, who surrenders and is imprisoned into the 20th-century. The government-mandated suppression of Native American culture culminates in the massacre at Wounded Knee, bringing the series full circle.
Apr 28, 1995

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