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How the West Was Won . . . and Honor Lost

• 1970 ----- color ----- 25 min ----- 16mm
• (North American Indian series, Part 1) Provides a history of the treaties made and broken, the removal of the Cherokee Nation from their home across a "trail of tears" during the winter in which one-fourth of their people died, destruction of the buffalo and emergence of the ghost dance religion, which incited the U. S. Seventh Cavalry to massacre over three hundred men, women and children at Wounded Knee. Then, the final wars ending in the defeat of Geronimo in 1886.
• Topics: (American Indian Studies, History: American, Law)

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