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Mention the word "Indian," and most will conjure up images inspired by myths and movies: teepees, headdresses, and war paint; Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and their battles (like Little Big Horn) with the U.S. Cavalry. Those stories of the so-called "horse nations" of the Great Plains are all here, but so is a great deal more. Using impressive computer imaging, photos, location film footage and breathtaking cinematography, interviews with present-day Indians, books and manuscripts, museum artifacts, and more, Leustig and his crew go back more than a millennium to present an fascinating account of Indians, including those (like the Maya and Aztecs in Mexico and the Anasazi in the Southwest) who were here long before white men ever reached these shores.
It was the arrival of Europeans like Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto that marked the beginning of the end for the Indians. Considering the participation of host Kevin Costner, whose film Dances with Wolves was highly sympathetic to the Indians, it's no bulletin that 500 Nations also takes a compassionate view of the multitude of calamities--from alcohol and disease to the corruption of their culture and the depletion of their vast natural resources--visited on them by the white man in his quest for land and money, eventually leading to such horrific events as the Trail of Tears "forced march," the massacre at Wounded Knee, and other consequences of the effort to "relocate" Indians to the reservations where many of them still live. Along the way, we learn about the Indians' participation in such events as the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as well as popular legends like the first Thanksgiving (it really happened) and the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas (it probably didn't).
With its sometimes New Age-y music and many beauty shots of the great outdoors, 500 Nations has a rather different vibe than the average Ken Burns documentary. That may lessen its value for sober historians, but for the rest of us, this is an illuminating and important work. --Sam Graham
| ACTORS: | Five Hundred Nations |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Box set, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 8 |
| UPC: | 085393593834 |
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Bad Chronology and Little Costner I eagerly awaited this product, and whilst I have not yet seen the whole program, I am largely very dissapointed with what I have seen so far. <
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>1) Advertised as "Kevin Costner explores America's Indian Heritage", it only has very brief comments from him (around a minute or 2 at best per episode). The actual commentary is done by a somewhat monotone lifeless droning voice, and is nothing like the emotion that should, and I expect would have been put into it by Costner. The advetising is just totally misleading. <
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>2) The first few episodes show text dating the eras being covered starting around 800AD or later, but in the actual commentary, there are statements like "around the time of" and "long before" Christ. These comments are just thrown into the narrative oout of the blue, make no sense whatsoever, and give one a sense of total confusion when trying to follow the cronology of the things being shown and discussed. <
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>The content on this subject may be some of the best available on DVD, but my experience with it so far, will probably stop me from even finishing it.
A Romantic view of Native Americans
Over all a solid series (Though I could do without the Costner introductions which seem crow-barred in, and do little to advance your information).
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>It's well researched but not balanced, and not accurately advertised. This series is not about Native Americans, but about Native Americans in contact with Europeans and Americans. The Europeans are characterized as almost entirely evil and exploitative and the Natives as victims more often than not. This may have something to do with Jack Leustig and Kevin Costner's political leanings which Costner hints at in his introductions, and an overly sympathetic view of the Native American's conquest.
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>The first thousands of years before European contact take up about half an hour and centers mostly on Central American cultures. The rest of the whole 6 hours is a catalog of the destruction of nation after nation, from 1492 to 1890. Not to say I didn't learn something. But if you want to learn about Native American societies, traditions, histories and are interested in their daily lives and beliefs, archaeological and anthropological information...this is not the series for you.
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>While this may be the "most comprehensive effort of it's kind"...it's definitely not what the box promises....and I wish they had taken a little more time and and done a bit more justice to the 500 nations by telling more of the whole story. This is the soap opera version of their history, and after all their cultures have seen and have done and been done to, they deserve better than to be patronized as well.
Yes, but...
the filming is beautiful and the computer imagery works well. Many parts of history are told but some are, sadly, left out. Historical records of savagary, cannibalism practiced among the tribes (especially during starvation), as well as the cultural bias against men working (other than hunting and warfare); the harsh and cruel disciplinary methods of children, and the exploitation of women.....these things are not given the fair treatment that should be afforded any historical overview.
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>Beginning somewhere in the 1960's, the revision of history began in earnest, with the white man appearing to be only the exploiter. White man, with his advanced civilization, ended all starvation of American Indians (of course, this explodes the overpopulation of America myth), and increased the quality of life; especially for Indian women, greatly. We all know of those Europeans who exploited, killed and robbed the Indian, but we also know well how both the French and English would arm them, against American settlements, because they knew how cruel and fearsome the Indian culture was to settlers: killing men and children, raping women. this was warfare and it was savage. It is savage in any culture that practices "total war". As shocking as this was to the settlers, both the French and English (and the spanish!) in their quest to "balance power", would cause uprisings from time to time, which ineviditably led to death: of whites and Indians alike.
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>As to the "land worship" culture that is so often propigated by PBS in our generation, their religions were anything but peaceful.
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>Will America ever return to an honest view of history? Kevin Costner is not our children's teacher. A more balanced view would be helpful.
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