Yup.

It's one thing that reminded me of a topic that inspired my thread about Atheists and Ethnic / Traditions.

I take it that if you've seen the thread that you've an idea of exactly what I had in mind.

At the same time, the Native Americans in the series spoke as if they were devoted to their ethnic origins, their tribe, their religion, and their traditions.

I thought it would be interesting to not simply juxtaposes what answers I expected from Atheists, but for some Atheists to understand that which the personally identify themselves with beyond such mundane stuff as "humanity", etc.

It's been an interesting series... I've seen the episodes about Geronimo, and Wounded Knee, thus far.

Nope. There wasn't enough water close to the surface for native settlements- even semi- or fully nomadic ones- to grow and thrive. Around here, you've got to DIG for the water- and it comes out tasting horribly. But, water is water- we all need it, and we use a lot of it. T. Boone's land grab under the flag of 'reformed Republican creepiness' isn't anything more than a land grab. Err.... a water rights grab. He's also been trying to sell the water on his own land to cities about a hundred miles away. And he thinks he can do it because they're downhill from him, and their backup water supply is uphill (though much closer.)