‎The Indian Wars: A Change of Worlds - Apple TV

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Before the wave of explorers and settlers arrived from Europe, millions of Native Americans lived on the lands that would become settled by Europeans. As disease ravaged the indigenous population and resources became scarce, a series of violent conflicts arose between tribes, settlers, and the government that scarred the continent.

Documentary · 2016 · 56 min

Starring Coby Batty

Director Kevin R. Hershberger

EPISODE 1

The People of Pre-Columbian America

In Pre-Columbian America, millions of Native Americans were spread across the continents, made up of a large number of unique civilizations and tribes. As the Spanish began exploring what they called the New World in the 1400s, the world they knew began to change forever.

55 min · Oct 4, 2016
EPISODE 2

Colonization of the 1600s

The first English settlement of Jamestown leads to the English dominating the East Coast. As they push up against Native American lands to the west, conflict becomes inevitable.

53 min · Oct 4, 2016
EPISODE 3

The French and Indian War

French settlers set up forts and trading posts across Canada, and partnered with the Native Americans in order to trap game. As tensions between the French and English colonists boiled over into the French and Indian War, the Native tribes provided assistance to their trading partners in hopes of driving the English out.

52 min · Oct 4, 2016
EPISODE 4

Manifest Destiny and the Trail of Tears

After overthrowing their monarch, the United States government begins their own relationship with the Native Americans. But the country pushes expansion still further west, the country begins to break its treaties with the Native Americans.

54 min · Oct 4, 2016
EPISODE 5

The Dakota War of 1862

While the United States fights itself in the Civil War, the western border territories find themselves engaged in the Dakota War of 1862, a bloody conflict between settlers and the Native Americans.

53 min · Oct 4, 2016
EPISODE 6

The Wounded Knee Massacre

The slaughter of the buffalo populations in the western United States is used to corral Native Americans into reservations. But these reservations were still not far enough from the reach of the United States.

51 min · Oct 4, 2016

Coby Batty

Narrator
Kevin R. Hershberger

Director
Kevin R. Hershberger

Producer