After the Mayflower

Truly ground-breaking, truly Beautiful
It's about time that something like this is produced, and what better director to use than Chris Eyre as director? He is at his finest in this work, capturing foggy rivers, haze-free sunsets, ample forests filled with flora and pigs and actors dressed in appropriate era clothing. The quality of the film itself is worthy of awards. This is truly a gift from his heart.

Benjamin Bratt's gentle voice adds to the narration. He doesn't get overly emotinal when telling the story, as the scenes you watch at the same time say it all. You are left to yourself to realize the brutality of that time.

This is a three-disc set totalling about 470 minutes. Produced in widescreen, even on my CRT set I get a near-full screen.

The first episode, "After the Mayflower" opens with 1621, the year the first settlers arrived off the shores of southeastern Massachusetts. The research that went into this work is incredible, with many scenes spoken in the native language,...

Your relearning for the truth of the Native American story begins here
The reviewer before me gave an excellent blow-by-blow of the series...and I concur with that assessment. However, I want to add something more big picture about what this series suggests.

This excellent series about the Native American story will leave many surprised to the effect of "Gee, I had no idea."

As a white American with some experience in tribal matters; this review is not only a recommendation for this series, but a plea of sorts with the general public to learn and understand more about the culture and lives of our Native American sisters and brothers.

I say, with all due respect: "PLEASE wake up."

Many of the stories in this series, which we hear from the Native American perspective, we learned in school through the Anglo lens with the following overtones: Indian savage... Indian bad... Troublemaker... Nonconformist... Enemy of progress... these were the stories we read in school, along with watching the bad guy "Injun Joe" on...

A great documentary
This is an excellent PBS series that really brings the past to light. The first two shows are really the best. The first show clearly reveals how the religious bigotry and predatory environmental and economic policies of the Puritans made any hope of peaceful coexistence impossible. A particularly grim fate awaited the "Praying Indians", who had accepted Christianity. During King Philip's War the Puritans put them in a concentration camp in the middle of winter for "security reasons", where most of them died. A good book you might want to read with this DVD is North American Indian Ecology. You might also want to watch a previous video series on Native Americans 500 Nations.

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