Wild West: Ghost Dance

Record ID: 122047
  • Title: Wild West: Ghost Dance
  • Date: 12th June 1995
  • Summary: EPISODE SIX : GHOST DANCE - 1889 - 1893 TRAUMATISED BY THEIR CONFINEMENT TO RESERVATIONS, NATIVE AMERICANS LAUNCHED A LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO HOLD ONTO THEIR CULTURE - IF ONLY IN THE MIND. THE GHOST DANCE RELIGION - AS WHITES CAME TO CALL THE APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENT THAT SPREAD QUICKLY THROUGH THE RESERVATIONS - FORETOLD THE COMING OF AN INDIAN MESSIAH. THE US GOVT, THREATENED BY THE RESURGENCE OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, MOVED TO SUPPRESS THE GHOST DANCE BY FORCE. IN DECEMBER 1890, VENERATED SIOUX LEADER SITTING BULL WAS MURDERED. TWO WEEKS LATER AT WOUNDED KNEE IN SOUTH DAKOTA, MEN WOMEN ADN CHILDREN WERE KILLED IN THE LAST TERRIBLE ACTION OF THE LONG INDIAN WARS.
  • Description:AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE CIVIL WAR RIC BURNS TELLS THE STORY OF THE WILD WEST.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:WGBH
  • Programme Episode:Episode 6
  • Transmission Date:12/06/1995
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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