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We Shall Remain

Season 1
WE SHALL REMAIN establishes Native history as an essential part of American history and showcases five heartbreaking, yet inspiring stories. Together they highlight Native ingenuity and resilience over the course of 300 years, while upending two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - After the Mayflower
    April 12, 2009
    1 h 16 min
    TV-PG
    In 1621, Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags of New England, negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.
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  2. S1 E2 - Tecumseh's Vision
    April 19, 2009
    1 h 24 min
    TV-PG
    In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent. After his death he would live on as a potent symbol of Native pride and pan-Indian identity.
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  3. S1 E3 - Trail of Tears
    April 26, 2009
    1 h 14 min
    TV-PG
    Though the Cherokee embraced "civilization" and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.
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  4. S1 E4 - Geronimo
    May 3, 2009
    1 h 16 min
    TV-PG
    As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.
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  5. S1 E5 - Wounded Knee
    May 10, 2009
    1 h 18 min
    TV-PG
    In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.
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