Wonderscape
The Wounded Knee Massacre and Its Lasting Impact
This video examines the tragic events leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, including the Ghost Dance Movement, the death of Sitting Bull, and the violent clash between the U.S. Army and Chief Spotted Elk's followers. It...
Wonderscape
The Battle of Little Bighorn: Custer's Last Stand
This video covers the events leading up to the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, where Indigenous leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led a decisive victory against the U.S. Army. It explores George Custer’s tactical mistakes and the...
Wonderscape
Understanding the End of the American-Indian Wars
This video explores key events leading to the end of the American-Indian Wars, including the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre. It highlights how these events shaped the relationship...
One Minute History
182 - Battle of Little Big Horn - One Minute History
(June 25, 1876) - George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry converge on the Little Bighorn River to corral the rebellious Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho. After discovering the location of Sitting Bull’s village,...
Curated Video
Little Bighorn: The Only Survivor
The Battle of Little Bighorn, or Custer’s Last Stand, is infamous for having left no survivors. So what are we to make of Frank Finkel’s story, that only he lived to tell the tale?
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: human impact on a declining sheep population
Human activity can have a huge ripple effect on wild species - learn how activities such as human development and the introduction of domestic sheep can wreak havoc on native populations. Filmed over a two year period in the rare...
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: effects of disease
The potentially devastating effects of disease on the Bighorn poulation in Chilcotin. Filmed over a two year period in the rare grasslands of the Chilcotin in British Columbia.
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: humans' conflicting relationships to nature
Nature can nourish and replenish us, and provide a solitary escape from a hectic human existence; nature is also used and destroyed by the human population as a whole. Here's a summary of the threats to our wildlife, centred around the...
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: First Nations history in the grasslands of BC
How do humans fit in to the long history of our natural world? Robert Moberg examines the history of First Nation people in Chilcotin and the blessing nature provides to human populations. Filmed over a two year period in the rare...
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: predators in the ecosystem
This clip examines Bighorn sheep die-offs and one of the reasons their numbers aren't bouncing back as they usually do: growing predator populations. Filmed over a two year period in the rare grasslands of the Chilcotin in British Columbia.
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: how does human employment impact nature?
In the world we live in, humans must work to live. This clip from the documentary 'Bighorns at the Junction' looks at the potential human industry has for environemental destruction, weighing up the difficult debate between 'humans need...
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: venture into wilderness of BC
An introduction to the glorious natural world of the Chilcotin district, and the endangered population of Bighorns that it is home to. Filmed over a two year period in the rare grasslands of the Chilcotin in British Columbia.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? Battle of the Little Bighorn
Find out why George Custer failed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: up close with a shrinking sheep population
A look at the declining population of the Bighorn in British Columbia, and a meditation on what we can learn from animals in nature. Filmed over a two year period in the rare grasslands of the Chilcotin in British Columbia.
Mr. Beat
Crazy Horse (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Here's the story of Crazy Horse, who became a symbol for resistance to American expansion.