
Timewatch
Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness
TV-PG
S10 • E1 Jan 22, 1991 50mHistorians and archaeologists have started to reassess some of the ingrained myths of American history. American Indians lived in sophisticated societies, and many more died as a result of the European settlement of North America than has so far been imagined. Andrew Sachs narrates the story of how Puritan prejudices helped to generate false views of Indians.