Monday, November 30, 2015

We Shall Remain entitled "After the Mayflower." Need detailed information

We Shall Remain is a 7and 1/2 hour PBS documentary
concerning the history of Native Americans.  It spans four hundred years, covering the
1600’s through the 1900’s.  It is broken into five episodes, each 90 minutes long, with
different directors, writers and producers contributing to the project.  The first
episode is titled, “After the Mayflower”.


This first
episode, “After the Mayflower”, begins in 1621 when English colonists in Plymouth colony
find themselves in dire straits, sick and hungry. They were in desperate need of help. 
The leading sachem of the Wampanoag, Massasoit, had his own problems to worry about.  He
was open to attack from the rival Narragansetts in the west after disease ravaged the
Wampanoag.   In order to protect his people from their enemies, Massasoit helped the
English colonists and entered an alliance with the foreigners in hopes that this
alliance would protect his people from their enemies.  For fifty years there was an
uneasy peace between the English and the Native Americans. With increasing English
immigration came the mistreatment of the Native Americans and the degradation of their
land, along with devastating epidemics.  Finally, in 1675, war erupted between the
English colonists of New England and the Wampanoag and their allies, led by Metacom, son
of Massasoit.

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