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Ince's Hollywood Indian Payroll

Who were "Two Lance and Wife" and "Luke Big Turnip and Wife?" And why did the New York Motion Picture Company pay them each week? Two California teens found the 1914 ledger in their great grandfather's attic. They ask HISTORY DETECTIVES host Eduardo Pagan to find out how these Native Americans earned their pay. Did Hollywood treat them fairly?

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Season 6, Episode 9
54:07
Shipwreck Cannons; Connecticut Farmhouse; Kahlil Gibran Painting
Season 6, Episode 7
54:07
Black Tom Shell; USS Olympia Glass; Front Street Blockhouse
Season 6, Episode 5
54:07
Hindenburg Artifact; Bonus Army Stamp; Dempsey Fight Bell
Season 6, Episode 4
54:08
China Marine Jacket; Airstream Caravan; Lincoln Forgery
Season 6, Episode 3
54:08
Japanese Balloon Bomb; Society Circus Program; Camp David Letter
Season 6, Episode 2
54:07
Red Hand Flag; Seth Eastman Painting; Isleton Tong
Season 6, Episode 1
54:07
World War II Diary; 1856 Mormon Tale; Annie Oakley Coin
Season 5, Episode 5
56:01
Great Mexican War Posters; Nora Holt Autograph Book; Muhlenberg Robe
3-D Cuban Missile Crisis
56:46
Investigating a projection screen with possible Cuban Missile Crisis connections.
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