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HBO: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg), the proud Lakota

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40 Years of Native American Studies at Dartmouth

40 Years of Native American Studies at Dartmouth

See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Dartmouth is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Native American Studies (NAS) program during the 2012-13 academic year. When Dartmouth was founded on December 13, 1769, its charter created a college “for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land … and also of English Youth and any others.”

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