Watch Ken Burns' The West Season 1 Episode 8 One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)

One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)

Season 1 Episode 8

Aired date: Sep 22, 1996

Plot: As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream. MORE

Plot: As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream. LESS