Season 1

• 

  8.4/1034 votes

  The Ancestors: Early Cultures of North America

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/1995

  This volume takes a look at the massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee then flashes back to examine societies of Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.4/1025 votes

  Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1995

  The rise and fall of the Aztec Empire is examined from their defeat of the Toltec regime to Cortez's ultimate conquest of the Aztecs and all of Mexico.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.4/1015 votes

  Clash of Cultures: The People Who Met Columbus

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/1995

  Columbus' arrival and the subsequent defeat of the Caribbean tribes are chronicled, along with De Soto's destruction of the Southeast tribes such as the Coosa and the Mobile nation.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.4/1020 votes

  Invasion Of The Coast: The First English Settlements

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/1995

  An examination of the Native Americans of New England and their experiences with the British who settled at Jamestown and Plymouth. Includes background to the first Thanksgiving.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.4/1020 votes

  Cauldron Of War: Iroquois Democracy And The American Revolution

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/27/1995

  Hostilities between Native Americans and European settlers erupt across the eastern part of the continent as the colonists prepare for revolution. Pontiac's siege of Detroit and the splintering of the Iroqois Confederacy are examined.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.4/1019 votes

  Removal: War And Exile In The East

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/1995

  After Tecumseh's Shawnee people side with the British in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, forcing all tribes to move into "Indian Territory," along the famed trail of tears.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.3/1019 votes

  Roads Across The Plains: Struggle For The West

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/1995

  The twin gold rushes in California and Colorado bring hordes of settlers into the Western Territories where such Native American leaders as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Kiowa chief Satanta organize futile resistance.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

• 

  8.6/1018 votes

  Attack On Culture: 'I Will Fight No More Forever'

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/28/1995

  The Indian resistance of the late 19th-century is examined, including Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the Apache leader Cochise and Geronimo, who surrenders and is imprisoned into the 20th-century. The government-mandated suppression of Native American culture culminates in the massacre at Wounded Knee, bringing the series full circle.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown