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A family member saw this DVD set at a discount store selling for a few bucks. They thought it would interest me because I am a professor of Native American history. I'm always looking for good media to use in my lectures. I appreciate my family member's good intentions, but there is little good I can write about this product. The maps are so grossly simplified as to be wrong. Some of the photographs of individuals are identified incorrectly. The content is inaccurate and, at times, racist in its characterization of American Indian people. At best, the script of this DVD set was researched in dated sources that do not reflect the substantial and wondeful body of scholarship written about Native American History during the last four decades. This is a waste of money. Please see the outstanding series We Shall Remain, which is available for free on a web site maintained by PBS. If you want to purchase DVDs, please go to the web sites of the National Museum of the American Indian, Oyate (a clearing house for educational materials on Indian cultures and histories), and individual tribes, many of whom have tribal historians and cultural heritage centers that have produced much better -- and more accurate -- DVDs.