Native Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that man of another race will understand.
-Charles Eastman, Dakota - 1911
Native Nations, hosted by Peter Coyote, chronicles the American Indians’ struggle for civil rights, and the creation of the National Indian Lutheran Board to raise funds and awareness for that struggle. From the controversy surrounding the 1862 trial when 38 Dakota Sioux were executed in the largest single-day mass hanging in United States history, to the confrontation of the 1960s when many Indian tribes joined together to speak out with a unified voice,
Native Nations tells the story of standing together for sovereignty, justice and civil rights.