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The Rise of the Lakota — Part 5
11 October 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · Season 1
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With peace comes a new policy direction from Washington.
President Grant wants to find a new approach to dealing with the native peoples of the West but ambition, greed and dreams of empire drive the United States and the Lakota onto a collision course as promises are broken and different visions of the West Clash.
Imperial arrogance leads George Armstrong Custer onto the battlefield of the Little Bighorn with devastating effects for the 7th Cavalry but military victory for the Lakota cannot stop the advance of a new kind of state.
Join Joseph Parkinson as we explore the world of the Lakota between the late 1860s and the 1870’s as an empire is humbled and a new West born.
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