We Shall Remain
by Chris Eyre, Sharon Grimberg
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Actor: Benjamin BrattDirector: Chris Eyre, Sharon Grimberg
Brand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: Your relearning for the truth of the Native American story begins here
Summary: 5 Stars
The reviewer before me gave an excellent blow-by-blow of the series...and I concur with that assessment. However, I want to add something more big picture about what this series suggests.
This excellent series about the Native American story will leave many surprised to the effect of "Gee, I had no idea."
As a white American with some experience in tribal matters; this review is not only a recommendation for this series, but a plea of sorts with the general public to learn and understand more about the culture and lives of our Native American sisters and brothers.
I say, with all due respect: "PLEASE wake up."
Many of the stories in this series, which we hear from the Native American perspective, we learned in school through the Anglo lens with the following overtones: Indian savage... Indian bad... Troublemaker... Nonconformist... Enemy of progress... these were the stories we read in school, along with watching the bad guy "Injun Joe" on the movie screen in that 1970s Disney version of Tom Sawyer.
Throw out all that garbage you have learned. Stop. Rewind. Reboot your hard drive...now learn the truth through this amazing and educational series.
I see this series as merely an introduction to what should be a higher calling for us as Americans; Anglo, Native, Black, Asian, or Latino. For those of you who are inspired by the stories told in this DVD series, it's your job to go out and seek more of the truth that is hinted at in what are a collection of five main stories for each disk: Before the Mayflower, Tecumseh's Vision, The Trail of Tears, Geronimo, and Wounded Knee.
At the very least ~ if you have a pulse ~ it should change your perspective on who we are as Americans. It seems to start mellow and peaceful with the first Thanksgiving, but the story sadly and quickly turns sour.
Instead of upholding and learning something from Native Americans (gee, imagine that), religion (of course) misunderstandings (wow, imagine that again), and operating on old belief systems get in the way of peace and trigger a horrible domino effect. You'll soon understand why we're a spiritually and culturally poorer nation than we should have been after witnessing the accounts of leaders drunk with power, the U.S. Government's land grabs, and a shameful, despicable, systematic decimation of tribal America through bait & switch treaty tactics, blatantly illegal relocation of entire tribes, boarding school brainwashings, abandonment, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
The accumulation of the stories will make you want to vomit.
Simply put, the series will leave you pondering how it's a far cry from the more culturally rich, fair, diverse, shared, and equitable society that we should have inherited.
It's the stories and hardships that aren't told - which contain more truths that substantiate those told in the series - that need to be discovered through more film, books, and perhaps some personal experience of your own. Taking an active role in the preservation, enlightenment, and support of thriving Native American cultures and their future could be one of the most significant and personally rewarding decisions you ever make.
Seek out a Native American cultural center in your part of the country; make it a modest staycation of sorts in a lean economy. Attend a pow wow ceremony or the like that allows for outside visitors. Support local tribes. Give to their schools. If your a doctor or looking at being one, consider putting time in at an Indian health center - a place that could REALLY use your help.
You might even discover something about yourself...and the road of discovery and reeducating yourself can begin with this DVD series.
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