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Drowned Land
Season 11
Episode 1103
In Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation, a proposed hydro-power plant on the Kiamichi River sparks a deeper inquiry into history and inheritance. As residents work to protect the river, the filmmaker investigates generations of displacement since the Trail of Tears—and her grandfather’s role designing dams that reshaped Native lands—examining memory, responsibility, and survival.
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Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones leads the charge to preserve history through scuba diving.
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Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
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Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
