Independent Lens · SEASON 18
What Was Ours
Episode 5 · 2017-01-16

- 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
1. Best of Enemies2016-10-02
2. Meet the Patels2016-12-26
3. Best and Most Beautiful Things2017-01-02
4. Containment2017-01-09
5. What Was Ours2017-01-16
6. The Witness2017-01-23
7. Birth of a Movement2017-02-06
8. Accidental Courtesy2017-02-13
9. TOWER2017-02-14
10. The Bad Kids2017-03-20
11. Ovarian Psycos2017-03-27
12. Newtown2017-04-03
13. SEED: The Untold Story2017-04-17
14. The Last Laugh2017-04-24
15. National Bird2017-05-01
16. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes2017-05-08
17. Forever Pure2017-05-15
18. They Call Us Monsters2017-05-22
19. Farmer/Veteran2017-05-29
20. Real Boy2017-06-19