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I discovered a few
interesting videos about the First Nations and here are a few of them...
500 Nations is an
documentary that explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North
and Central America, from pre-Colombian times through the period of
European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and
the subjugation of the Plains Indians of North America. 500 Nations
utilizes historical texts, eyewitness accounts, pictorial sources and
computer graphic reconstructions to explore the magnificent
civilizations which flourished prior to contact with Western
civilization, and to tell the dramatic and tragic story of the Native
American nations' desperate attempts to retain their way of life against
overwhelming odds.
500 Nations
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
The First Nations Wars -
The American Indian
DAKOTA 38
In the spring of 2005,
Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself
in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota.
Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38
of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the
largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham
Lincoln on December 26, 1862. "When you have dreams, you know when they
come from the creator... As any recovered alcoholic, I made believe that
I didn't get it. I tried to put it out of my mind, yet it's one of those
dreams that bothers you night and day."
Now, four years later, embracing the message of the dream, Jim and a
group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback
from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the
hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. "We can't blame the
wasichus anymore. We're doing it to ourselves. We're selling drugs.
We're killing our own people. That's what this ride is about, is
healing." This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure,
the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the
way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away.
Native America before
European Colonization
Upon the arrival of Columbus in 1492 in
the Carabean Islands, unknown to Columbus (and majority of the Eastern
Hemisphere), he landed on Islands located in the middle of two huge
continents now known has North America and South America that was
teaming with huge Civilizations (that rivaled any in the world at that
time) and thousands of smaller Nations and Tribes. With recent
estimations, the population may have been over 100 million people that
spanned from Alaska and Green Land, all the to the tip of southern South
America.
America's Great Indian Nations - Full Documentary
This documentary profiles six of the major
Native American tribes that were defeated and subdued as part of the
settling of the United States. With reenactments, clarifying maps,
artwork, and landscape scenery, this program features the Iroquois, a
confederacy comprised of several Indian tribes: the Seminoles in
Florida, who welcomed escaped slaves and fought three major wars with
the United States before meeting their ultimate defeat; the Shawnee,
fierce Ohio Algonquians who allied with the French against the British;
the Navajo, a farming people who today are the largest remaining Native
American tribe; the Cheyenne, a nomadic Plains Indian tribe that
depended on the American bison for sustenance; and the Lakota Sioux, the
dominant Sioux tribe comprised of the bands called Oglala, Brule,
Hunkpapa, and Minneconjou. |
