Timewatch

Savagery and the American Indian (2): Civilisation (1991x2)

: 30, 1991

Second part of a documentary film looking at the history of the native American Indians and particularly the effects of white colonisation of the continent and the near extinction of their peoples and culture. This looks at the continued clash between European and Native American cultures in the 100 years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, and the disastrous attempts of the government to assimilate the Indians. Indians describe what life was like on the reservations and of the attempts to obliterate their language, culture and ways.