- Published: [Alexandria? Va.] : Burbank, CA : PBS DVD Gold ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2003]
- Year Published: 2003
- Edition: Standard version.
- Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Language: English
- Format: DVD
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0780643615 (set) :
- 794054889123 (set)
Additional Credits
- Burns, Ken, 1953-
- Ives, Stephen.
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Duncan, Dayton.
- Abramson, Jody.
- Kantor, Michael, 1961-
- Squires, Buddy.
- Moore, Allen.
- Zucker, Adam.
- Coyote, Peter.
- Gohl, Teese.
- Insignia Films.
- WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
- Florentine Films.
- Time Life Video & Television.
- PBS DVD (Firm)
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
Subjects
- Ghost dance.
- Nativistic movements -- United States.
- Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Land use -- West (U.S.)
- West (U.S.) -- History.
- United States -- Territorial expansion.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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The West. Disc 5
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Call number: DVD 978 We V.5
Additional Details
Episodes eight and nine of a nine-part series originally televised in 1996.
Episode 8. Ghost dance -- Episode 9. One sky above us.
Episode 8. Examines the Native American mystical movement called Ghost dance, begun by a Paiute and to which Plains Indians resorted upon their military defeat. It lead to the massacre at Wounded Knee. Episode 9. While many considered the West "closed" as the turn of the century neared, new problems arose with the management of settled lands, with Native Americans struggling to maintain traditional lives or to follow the white man's ways, with water management, the growth of cities, and more.
DVD; stereo, surround, full screen.
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