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The Glover family invites an indigenous activist group to start a protest camp on their land in West Texas. They call the camp Two Rivers and fight the same company that built the pipeline at Standing Rock. As several industrial projects threaten the region, their struggle reveals much about the colonial legacy of Texas, and how what happens in Texas has reverberations around the world.
Tracing the trials of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who was shipwrecked off the gulf coast of Texas in 1528 and lived among Indians for eight years, this program reveals how some early Spanish explorers grew to empathize with the plight of Native Americans. Through the writings of Cabeza de Vaca and excerpts of the famous argument of Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas—the first appointed Protector of the Indians by the Spanish crown—in which he debated that “Indians are humans,” the program explores the emergence of a new era of acceptance. Cabeza de Vaca became a shaman later in his life. Few stories in history match these for sheer drama, endurance, and transformation as this. Part of the series Conquistadors. Distributed by PBS Distribution. (60 minutes)
This program explains how the transcontinental railroad was built, and then how it opened up the West to European settlers and brought on the extermination of the buffalo and the defeat of Southern Plains Indian tribes. Viewers will witness the transformation through first-person accounts from Native Americans, European immigrants, Chinese laborers, buffalo hunters, homesteaders from the eastern U.S., and cowboys on the dusty trails leading from Texas. Part of the series The West: A Film by Stephen Ives. Distributed by PBS Distribution. (84 minutes) Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Here is the saga of Manifest Destiny, the banner under which Americans surged westward in the mid-19th century. It is the story of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War that doubled the size of the young United States, the gold strikes that doubled its wealth, and the pioneer spirit that made the Oregon Trail into Main Street. (57 minutes)
Americans swarmed into the Louisiana Purchase territories, triggering three major conflicts: with the Plains Indian tribes, with Mexico over the province of Texas, and the third over the admission of slavery into the Louisiana Purchase.
Through wars, depressions, and social upheavals, the West has accommodated to change while remaining a mythical land of freedom and possibility. The ghosts of the buffalos are still stirring. Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood have given way to Native American artists; Indians—once the subjects of painting—have become its practitioners. So the myth regenerates itself and the American consciousness and the American dream are reshaped and redefined. (57 minutes)
Media Credits
Header image: Lost in a Snowstorm -- We Are Friends, Charles M. Russell (1888). JSTOR
Image for "The Golden Land": The Smoke Signal, Charles M. Russell (1905). JSTOR
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