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American Experience; We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower

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Series
American Experience
Program
We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower
Program Number

2105

Series Description

Premiered October 1988 As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988

Program Description

In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

Episode one of five in the We Shall Remain series.

In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonists. Hungry, dirty, and sick, the pale-skinned foreigners were struggling to stay alive; they were in desperate need of Native help.

Massasoit faced problems of his own. His people had lately been decimated by unexplained sickness, leaving them vulnerable to the rival Narragansett to the west. The Wampanoag sachem calculated that a tactical alliance with the foreigners would provide a way to protect his people.

Five decades of English immigration, mistreatment, lethal epidemics, and widespread environmental degradation had brought the Indians and their way of life to the brink of disaster. Led by Metacom, Massasoit’s son, the Wampanoag and their Native allies fought back against the English, nearly pushing them into the sea. (NOTE: This is also known as King Philip’s War.)

Duration

01:17:19

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Documentary
Topics
History
Citation
Chicago: “American Experience; We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower,” GBH Archives, accessed March 28, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_55741C22FDD1449282876B71516A03DF.
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APA: American Experience; We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_55741C22FDD1449282876B71516A03DF
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