The West
Season 1, Episode 8: Ghost Dance (1887 -1914)
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As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The People (1500-1806)
Episode 2
Empire Upon The Trails (1806-1848)
Episode 3
The Speck Of The Future (1848-1856)
Episode 4
Death Runs Riot (1856-1868)
Episode 5
The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)
Episode 6
Fight No More Forever (1874-1877)
Episode 7
The Geography Of Hope (1877-1887)
Episode 8
Ghost Dance (1887 -1914)
Episode 9
One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)