Independent Lens · SEASON 18

What Was Ours

Episode 5 · 2017-01-16

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  • Documentary

Episode overview

Residents of Wyoming's isolated Wind River Indian Reservation, a young Arapaho journalist, and a teenage powwow princess travel with a Shoshone elder to search for missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago's Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost, and build hope for the future.

60 minutes

Season 18 episodes