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# Never Conquered
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/independent-lens/specials/never-conquered-wayxwk/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:16:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T05:47:44.000Z
- Description: Get to know Eastern Shoshone tribal elder Philbert McLeod, star of What Was Ours.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Independent Lens, #ZZZ_Show_0b7db2c5-17c9-47e3-a2fa-022bad749896, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Special_1d17024c-c82f-46cd-ab4c-209341133216, #special

In this piece by filmmaker Mat Hames, we get to know more about Eastern Shoshone tribal elder Philbert McLeod, one of the stars of Hames’ Independent Lens film What Was Ours. Philbert had an incredible breadth of knowledge about his tribe’s history, and received a Purple Heart fighting for America in Vietnam. He believed an old beaded charm passed down by an elder helped protect him in combat.