1990 color 56 min. It shows how scholars have uncovered the connection between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone. Demonstrates how African Americans kept their ties with their homeland in their speech, songs and customs through centuries of oppression. Dramatic recreations, historical pictures, interviews and modern scenes trace the history of farming, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences from frontier days to the present. What emerges is a clear sense of how the teaching, research and outreach of the Ag.
College make it a partner in the everyday life of Wisconsin's people.
1990 color 9 min. The 1880 Wounded Knee massacre remembered through poetry, art and the beauty of the South Dakota landscape. Documents a pivotal event in American history and the work of some of America's finest Lakota artists. Ideal for the study of art, literature, Native American studies and the American West. Traces the development of Amish life in Iowa from 1840 to the present.