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Gilbert, Corporate Secretary KWBU-TV Programming Information • (254) 710-7884 The KWBU Program Guide is a monthly publication. KWBU-TV Membership Information • (254) 710-7887 KWBU is a service of our members, the Brazos Valley PBS Video • 1-800-PLAYPBS Public Broadcasting Foundation and Baylor University. Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation • One Bear Place #97296 • Waco, Texas 76798-7296 KWBU-TV Highlights We Shall Remain: American Experience Mondays, April 13 - May 11 at 8:00 p.m. – “The Master of Life has appointed this place for us on which to light our fi res, and here we shall remain.” Tecumseh (Shawnee) – hey were charismatic pivotal moments in U.S. history from and forward the Native American perspective. WE thinking, imaginative SHALL REMAIN airs Mondays, April and courageous, 13 - May 11 at 8:00 p.m. on KWBU-TV. Tcompassionate and resolute, and, Beginning in the 1600s with the at times, arrogant, vengeful, Wampanoags, who used their alliance and reckless. For hundreds of with the English to strengthen their years, Native American leaders position in Southern New England, and from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and ending with the bold new leaders of the Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, 1970s, who harnessed the momentum Geronimo, and Fools Crow of the Civil Rights Movement to forge valiantly resisted expulsion a pan-Indian identity, WE SHALL Shawnee warrior Tecumseh, from their lands and fought portrayed by actor Michael Greyeyes REMAIN upends two-dimensional (pictured) rose to become one of the extinction of their culture. stereotypes of American Indians as the greatest American leaders of all Sometimes, their strategies were simply ferocious warriors or peaceable time. With his brother, the prophet militaristic, but more often they Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh organized lovers of the land. were diplomatic, spiritual, legal, the most ambitious pan-Indian Chris Eyre, director of the fi rst three resistance movement ever mounted and political. to defend the American Indian way of episodes of WE SHALL REMAIN, life. The second episode of the fi ve- From PBS’s acclaimed history series, has been involved with the series part miniseries is a story of strength, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, in pride and pronounced courage. from its onset. “You can’t understand association with Native American America in the 21st century if you don’t CREDIT: ©LARRY GUS Public Telecommunications (NAPT), understand the Native experience,” he comes WE SHALL REMAIN, a says. “What connects these fi ve fi lms ground-breaking mini-series and is the resolve of their characters. This provocative multi-media project country is founded on people striving, that establishes Native history as an being tenacious and moving forward… essential part of American history. Five this is a look at that, through Native 90-minute documentaries spanning eyes.” three hundred years tell the story of Also this month: 400 Years of the Telescope Great Performances a the Met: Green Builders Airs Thursday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. Lucia di Lammermoor Airs Sunday, April 19 at 9:30 p.m. Airs Wednesday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. This visually stunning program chronicles a This program profi les a cast of green building sweeping journey, from 1609, when Galileo Anna Netrebko is the doomed heroine and pioneers who have taken the leap into revealed mankind’s place in the galaxy, to Marius Kwiecien is her unfeeling brother in making their part of the “built environment” today’s thrilling quests to discover new worlds Donizetti’s opera. a more energy-effi cient and environmentally in the universe. Pictured: An actor portrays CREDIT: KEN HOWARD/METROPOLITAN OPERA friendly place. Pictured: The Willow School in Galileo peering through his telescope. Gladstone, New Jersey. CREDIT: COURTESY OF INTERSTELLAR STUDIOS CREDIT: COURTESY OF BACK TO NATURE KWBU PROGRAM GUIDE 2 JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU: OCEAN ADVENTURES Wednesdays, April 8 & 22 at 7:00 p.m. – Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures Team Explore the Human Connection to Beluga and Orca Whales – raveling to extreme locations around the globe to reveal the mysteries of the ocean and its con- nection to our human world, Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team of explorers return to PBS with two new expeditions in the PBS environmental series JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU: OCEAN AD- VENTURES. Combining science and discovery with expert storytelling and astonishing high- Tdefinition footage, “Sea Ghosts” (beluga whales) airs Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 7:00-8:00 p.m.; “Call