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The Way West documentary on PBS charts overlooked cost of westward expansion
PBS presents The Way West a six hour American Experience film tracing 1840 1890 through manifest destiny and the clash with Native Americans. It covers massacres at Sand Creek Ouchita Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee and argues the West story continues with Native cultures thriving today.
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Ric Burns
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Wounded Knee