Ghost dance [videorecording] / a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV, Washington, in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; directed by Stephen Ives.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Turner Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
c1996
Description:
1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., col. and B & W ; 1/2 in.
Historical TV documentary series. "Ken Burns presents The West, a film by Stephen Ives"--Container. Originally produced as a TV series by WETA-TV, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
By the late 1880s, the Americans were astounded by the changes they had brought to the West. Mining towns such as Butte, Montana were now full-fledged industrial cities. Defeated militarily, Native Americans throughout the region now flocked to the call of a Paiute mystic, who offered the illusionary hope that the lost world of the buffalo could be brought back by a Ghost Dance. But its promises would be trampled in the snow and blood of Wounded Knee. In place of the great Native American cultures which once dominated the Plains was a new culture, epitomized by the Oklahoma Land Rush, in which 100,000 eager settlers lined up for a mad dash to stake out a farm and a future.
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