Summary of contents: The history of Indian boarding schools, how they functioned, and how they affected American Indian culture.

Primary themes: Boarding schools as tools of  the assimilation.

This video/film is most useful forteacher instruction about assimilation by dealing with subject with which students can identify.

Distribution information:
PBS Home Video
Catalogue Fulfillment Center
P.O. Box 4030
Santa Monica, Ca 90411
Phone:  (800) 531-4727 or (800) 645-4pbs
 

Summary of contents: An overview of the American Indian removal experience,beginning chronologically with the Shawnee Leader Tecumseh through  the Cherokee Trail of Tears.

Primary themes: The European, and later American, hunger for land led to the systematic displacement and removal of American Indians from their ancestral lands.

This video/film is most useful for introducing the removal policy to students, as well as for teacher instructional information.

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Warner Home Video*
700 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, Ca 91522
* Warner Home Video will not take orders by phone.

Summary of contents: The history of Lakota war with U.S. in an attempt to retain homelands.  Includes Crazy Horse, the Gold Rush in the Black Hills,  the establishment of the South Dakota reservation, and Sitting Bull and his followers.

Primary theme:  The American interest in land and gold was the ultimate incentive for the destruction of Native Americans.

This video/film is most useful forviewing by secondary teachers and students.  Not only is it very informative on the subject of the Lakota war, but it tells the history in a compelling way.

Distribution information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone: (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents: The history of the Apache relationship with European contacts.    Details the Apache migratory lifestyle from New Mexico to Mexico.  Includes the experience of Geronimo as well as other important Apache leaders.

Primary themes: The interaction between the Apache, American settlers, and the U.S. government is a representative case study of  the American fulfillment  Manifest Destiny.

This video/film is most useful forstudent and teacher viewing.    A good example of how assumptions, misunderstanding, and the national belief of  Manifest Destiny led to conflict between American settlers and Native Americans during the second half of the 19th century .

Distribution Information:
Dicovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, Md 20814-3579
Phone: (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents: A general history of Native contact with European peoples beginning in 1492 including pilgrims, disease, and Manifest Destiny.

Primary themes: The clash of cultures between European and Native peoples beginning in 1492  was a  later justification  for destructive policies carried out by the federal government of the United States and vigilantism perpetrated by U.S. citizens.

This video/film is most useful for helping secondary students understand the cultural differences between American Indians and the European settlers, and the consequences of those cultural differences.

Distribution Information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone:  (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents:  The Nez Perce journey of over 1,400 in an attempt to escape the American calvary.  Details the first encounter with Lewis and Clark.

Primary themes:  In the 19th Century, American Indian Nations found their way of living under attack as a result of the U.S. policy .

This video/film is most useful for helping teachers and secondary students understand removal policies and their consequences for American Indians.

Distribution Information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone:  (800)475-6636

Summary of contents:  The attempt by Northern Cheyenne and Lakota to escape the reservation in Oklahoma and return to ancestral homes.  Details the influence and history of Sitting Bull, the Ghost Dance, and the U.S. attempt to assimilate Native Americans through reservation life and boarding schools.

Primary themes:   The U.S. government adopted many policies designed to assimilate American Indians - most prominantly,  reservations, boarding schools, and outlawing the Ghost Dance.

This video/film is most useful for students and teachers because it incorporates details of early reservation life with the destruction of Native American culture through assimilation.

Distribution Information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone: (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents: Details the Cheyenne contact with United States, the decimation of the buffalo, the destruction of the Plains Indians, and their struggle against non-Indian aggression.

Primary themes:  The Cheyenne provide a case study of the decimation of Plains Indians' culture and lifestyle at the  hands citizens of the United States.

This video/film is most useful for helping students and teachers learn more about removal policies and their consequences for American Indians.

Distribution Information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone: (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents: The history of the Cherokee beginning in 1795 when they were initially driven from original homelands.  Details the adoption of European agricultural practices and other cultural ideas, Cherokee government, literacy,etc.    Includes information on removal from Georgia, court battles and the Trail of Tears.

Primary themes: Despite the fact that the Cherokee were perhaps the most westernized tribe, they were unable to stave of the encroaching settlement of their lands and their ultimate removal.

This video/film is most useful forboth secondary teachers and students interested in a concise history of the Cherokee nation and its relations with settlers and later, with the United States government.

Distribution Information:
Discovery Home Entertainment
7700 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814-3579
Phone: (800)-475-6636

Summary of contents:  This video details the  history of the relationship between US federal and state governments and with tribal governments.  It gives a detailed definition of the trust relationship, and its implications for American Indians, federal, and state government.

Primary themes:  The basis for the trust relationship between tribal governments and United States is rooted in history of tribal sovereignty, treaties, American Indian law.

This video/film is most useful for teachers who will find it helpful for answering basic questions about the origins and implications of the trust relationship, but it is most likely too dense for students.

Distribution Information:
A production of B.I.A. of Washington D.C.
This video is available for individual review from the Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel Program Curriculum Resource Center at Humboldt State University.