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Read, Listen, and Watch – November 2020

“WE SHALL REMAIN: America Through Native Eyes”

PBS documentary series, shown at ALANA Center’s Anti-thanksgiving events, and originally aired on PBS in 2009. “These five documentaries spanning almost four hundred years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective, upending two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land”

Available through the Vassar College Libraries – DVD 5388

The first episode of the PBS series was directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals,1998), which was written, directed, and acted by Native people and reenacts and historicizes the first thanksgiving.

Available through the Vassar College Libraries – DVD 8779