We Shall Remain "Previews"

PBS series takes an ambitious look at American Indian life after the arrival of the Mayflower

The long-running PBS history series embraces an expansive topic, with a five-part look at American Indian life after the arrival of the Mayflower

By ROBERT PHILPOT
rphilpot@star-telegram.com

During the course of more than 20 seasons, PBS’ history-documentary series American Experience has tackled diverse topics, beginning with the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and profiling personalities including P.T. Barnum, Duke Ellington and most U.S. presidents. But its latest project may be the most ambitious in the series’ history.

We Shall Remain, which begins Monday, is a five-part history of America — told from the perspective of the American Indian. Each episode runs roughly 90 minutes and focuses on a different chapter, beginning with After the Mayflower, which centers on the interaction between the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims, and concluding with Wounded Knee, which takes the series into the 20th century with the standoff between Oglala Lakota and federal troops at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1973.

“This is the first time we’ve done something like this,” says Sharon Grimberg, an American Experience executive producer. “It came out of another project that didn’t actually happen. Probably six or seven years ago we’d actually been contemplating — within American Experience — doing a comprehensive history of America.

“I was charged with doing the research for that series, and there were a number of early stories, pre-United States history, the early years of contact and settlement, that were very interesting.  . . .We began to think, ‘What would a series about Native Americans look like?’ ”

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Coming to UW-Whitewater April 2009

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Indigenous Voices: A Media Celebration of Indigenous Identity

April 2009: The University of Wisconsin Whitewater’s Native American Cultural Awareness Association will be sponsoring a media event combining the traditional methods of indigenous communication with modern day media. Through the use of film, music, traditional art: a process of learning, understanding and healing will overtake all involved. We will be working to bring indigenous youth to the event, reuniting the generations.

This event is open to the public!

Art will be displayed in the Roberta A. Fiskum Art Gallery.

“just begin healing. we neednt destroy anything, we just need to be left be to mend. we need examples of mending to illuminate the ability” – Wanbli Wiwohkpe

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http://orgs.uww.edu/nacaa/NAACA/Indigenous_Voices_2009.html