We Shall Remain on PBS in April - Beyond Tiki

JT Jungle Trader Member Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca. Joined: Jan 04, 2003 Posts: 3772	JT Jungle Trader Posted posted on Mon, May 4, 2009 10:42 PM On 2009-05-04 14:28, Dano wrote: A few words on the episodes I have viewed so far... I read a great book on Tecumseh (and The Prophet) about ten years+ago entitled "Panther In The Sky". He truly was a great leader (Tecumseh), not so much his brother! Trail of Tears - a new revelation to me on the Cherokee "aristocracy" owning slaves. Interesting indeed... I'd like to read that book. I haven't read much of the history before the Trail of Tears. In tonite's episode, did anyone else notice that Mangas Colorado's name was never mentioned?, even though he was the medicine man that was beheaded, whom the Apache's talked about? Might have had something to do with the way he died and Apache tradition.

On 2009-05-04 14:28, Dano wrote:
A few words on the episodes I have viewed so far...

I read a great book on Tecumseh (and The Prophet) about ten years+ago entitled "Panther In The Sky". He truly was a great leader (Tecumseh), not so much his brother!

Trail of Tears - a new revelation to me on the Cherokee "aristocracy" owning slaves. Interesting indeed...

I'd like to read that book. I haven't read much of the history before the Trail of Tears.

In tonite's episode, did anyone else notice that Mangas Colorado's name was never mentioned?, even though he was the medicine man that was beheaded, whom the Apache's talked about? Might have had something to do with the way he died and Apache tradition.

Post #451766 by Jungle Trader on Mon, May 4, 2009 10:42 PM