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Enlarge cover image for In the white man's image [videorecording] / presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles ; written and produced by Christine Lesiak ; a production of the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium and the Nebraska Educational Television Network for The American experience. VHS

In the white man's image [videorecording] / presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles ; written and produced by Christine Lesiak ; a production of the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium and the Nebraska Educational Television Network for The American experience.

Summary:

Stacy Keach narrates this program which examines the experiment of federal government boarding schools for Indian children. Native Americans who attended these schools help tell the story of this humanist experiment gone wrong.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0793606357
  • ISBN: 9780793606351
  • Physical Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. + discussion guide (1 fold. leaf)
  • Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series The American experience.
Container lists time as 60 minutes.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
"AMEX413"--Cassette.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Gary Steele ; edited by Alexandru Moscu ; voices, Susan Beck ... [et al.] ; music, Tom Larson.
Participant or Performer Note:
Host, David McCullogh; narrator, Stacy Keach; producers, Christine Lesiak, Matthew Jones.
System Details Note:
VHS format.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Education.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indians, Treatment of > United States.
Boarding schools > United States.
Indians of North America > Relocation.