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The Great Indian Wars 1540-1890 (2009)

Rating

Run Time: 235 min

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Sound: Stereo

Producer: Centre Communications

Genre

Documentary

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Overview

The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America's landscape would be forever changed.

Alphonse Keasley

Narrator

Season 1

1. The Indians

First Aired August 24, 1966

The early Native American tribes including Kiowa, Comanche, Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Sioux; the rise of horse culture; clothing; social structure; religion.

2. The Cavalry

First Aired August 24, 1966

Dragoons; protecting the trails; Fort Laramie; the Laramie Treaty; Santa Fe Trail; Kit Carson and the Navajo; buffalo soldiers.

3. The Indian Warrior and the Massacres

First Aired August 24, 1966

Early Native American conflicts; becoming a warrior; Native American weapons; the Minnesota Massacre; the Sand Creek Massacre.

4. Battle for the Northern Plains

First Aired August 24, 1966

The 1865 Winter Offensive; Red Cloud's War; Chief Roman Nose and the Cheyenne Twilight; the Battle of Little Big Horn; the Wounded Knee Massacre.

5. Battle for the Southern Plains

First Aired August 24, 1966

The Council House Fight and the Texas Rangers; Chief Buffalo Hump's War; the First Battle of Adobe Walls; the Red River War; the Desert Southwest; Cochise and the Apache Guerillas; Geronimo.