500 Nations

  • Premiered: Apr 1995
  • Episodes: 8
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
The Ancestors: Early Cultures Of North America
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 20, 1995
This volume takes a look at the massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee then flashes back to examine societies of Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers.
1x2
Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 20, 1995
The rise and fall of the Aztec Empire is examined from their defeat of the Toltec regime to Cortez' ultimate conquest of the Aztecs and all of Mexico.
1x3
Clash of Cultures: The People Who Met Columbus
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 1995
Columbus' arrival and the subsequent defeat of the Caribbean tribes are chronicled, along with De Soto's destruction of the Southeast tribes such as the Coosa and the Mobile nation.
1x4
Invasion of the Coast: The First English Settlements
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 1995
An examination of the Native Americans of New England and their experiences with the British who settled at Jamestown and Plymouth. Includes background to the first Thanksgiving.
1x5
Cauldron of War: Iroquois Democracy and the American Revolution
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Air date
Apr 27, 1995
Hostilities between Native Americans and European settlers erupt across the eastern part of the continent as the colonists prepare for revolution. Pontiac's siege of Detroit and the splintering of the Iroqois Confederacy are examined.
1x6
Removal: War and Exile in the East
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Air date
Apr 27, 1995
After Tecumseh's Shawnee people side with the British in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, forcing all tribes to move into "Indian Territory," along the famed trail of tears.
1x7
Roads Across the Plains: Struggle for the West
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 28, 1995
The twin gold rushes in California and Colorado bring hordes of settlers into the Western Territories where such Native American leaders as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Kiowa chief Satanta organize futile resistance.
1x8 Show finale
Attack on Culture: 'I Will Fight No More Forever'
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Air date
Apr 28, 1995
The Indian resistance of the late 19th-century is examined, including Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the Apache leader Cochise and Geronimo, who surrenders and is imprisoned into the .. show full overview

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