The West

Season 1, Episode 8

Episode Title: Ghost Dance (1887 -1914)

Air Date: 1996-09-22

Overview:

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.