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Season 1 Official Trailer

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Preview: S1 | 30s | Native America explores the world created by America’s First Peoples. (30s)

Season 1 Inside Look | Making Native America

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Clip: S1 | 2m | The producers and featured participants of Native America discuss making the series. (2m)

Weaving Grass Bridges

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 3m 2s | In Peru, people still build traditional Inca grass bridges. (3m 2s)

Maya Blue

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 1m 8s | How the Aztecs used color to represent the aftermath of colonialism. (1m 8s)

Extended Interview: Severin Fowles on Native Science

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 1m 25s | Archaeologist Severin Fowles re-imagines Native religion as Native science. (1m 25s)

Extended Interview: Evidence of the Comanche

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 2m 15s | With help, the archaeologist finds evidence of the illusive Comanche. (2m 15s)

Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 2m 52s | Illuminating the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to record their culture. (2m 52s)

Extended Interview: Burning a Forest to Revive a People

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 3m 23s | Valentin Lopez, of the Amah Mutsun, uses fire to save his peoples culture. (3m 23s)

Episode 4 Preview | New World Rising

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Preview: 11/13/2018 | 30s | Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed. (30s)

Episode 3 Preview | Cities of the Sky

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Preview: 11/13/2018 | 30s | Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. (30s)

Comanche Horse Traditions

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 1m 59s | Horses continue to be an important part of Comanche identity and tradition. (1m 59s)

Aztec Resistance

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Clip: 11/13/2018 | 2m 6s | Resistance begun by Aztec builders continues through today. (2m 6s)

Mound 72

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 2m 29s | Archaeologists investigate Cahokian human sacrifice. (2m 29s)

Lidar Mapping

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 2m 23s | Cahokia researchers uses new LiDAR technology to map the layout of this ancient city. (2m 23s)

Inca Huacas

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 2m 32s | The historical and contemporary spiritual importance of Incan Huacas. (2m 32s)

The Governor’s Palace

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 3m 7s | Why this magnificent structure is built at an angle to the rest of the city. (3m 7s)

Extended Interview: Religion at Teotihuacan

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 2m 38s | Harvard professor of Religion David Carrasco speaks on religion and Teotihuacan. (2m 38s)

Extended Interview: Ian Thompson on the Trail of Tears

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 4m 28s | The Choctaw scholar reflects on the bitter chapter of history known as the Trail of Tears. (4m 28s)

Extended Interview: Ian Thompson on Ancient Earthen Mounds

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 3m 35s | The Choctaw scholar reflects on the ancient tradition of earthen mounds and mound culture. (3m 35s)

Cahokia’s Celestial Calendar (Woodhenge)

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Clip: 11/6/2018 | 2m 13s | An archaeology team work to uncover remains of a celestial calendar at Cahokia. (2m 13s)

Traditional Wampum Belts

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 2m 47s | Marcus Hendricks continues the tradition of making Wampum beads by hand. (2m 47s)

Totem Poles

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 2m 24s | Alan Hunt and Beau Dick share the real story of totem poles. (2m 24s)

Extended Interview: Leigh Kuwanwisiwma on Corn as Teacher

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 2m 30s | Hopi elder Leigh Kuwanwisiwma has learned many life lessons from corn. (2m 30s)

Extended Interview: Jim Enote on Lessons from Farming

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 1m 57s | Zuni elder Jim Enote reflects on lessons learned from farming. (1m 57s)

Extended Interview: G. Peter Jemison on the Longhouse

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 4m 41s | The Seneca faithkeeper on how the longhouse was constructed and what it meant. (4m 41s)

Extended Interview: Beau Dick on the Family of Mankind

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 2m 10s | Beau Dick, the late great Kwakwaka’wakw chief and artist reflects on the power of family. (2m 10s)

Episode 2 Preview | Nature to Nations

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Preview: 10/30/2018 | 30s | Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies. (30s)

Corn is King

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 2m 40s | A look at traditional Native American crops and agricultural practices. (2m 40s)

Clan Mother

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Clip: 10/30/2018 | 1m 56s | The history and mythology of Clan Mothers and continued female leadership. (1m 56s)

Zuni Maps

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 2m 21s | Jim Enote uses ancient petroglyphs and contemporary art to recreate Zuni maps. (2m 21s)

Extended Interview: The Importance of Names

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 2m 36s | Zuni elder Jim Enote explains how Native names for places provides important information. (2m 36s)

Extended Interview: The Earliest Cave Paintings in America

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 2m 58s | Anna Roosevelt dates the cave paintings in Brazil’s Amazon jungle to 13,000 years ago. (2m 58s)

Extended Interview: David Carrasco on Shared Beliefs

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 4m 24s | Illuminating the similarities of the religious beliefs shared across the Americas. (4m 24s)

Episode 1 Preview | From Caves to Cosmos

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Preview: 10/23/2018 | 30s | Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples? (30s)

Chaco Chocolate

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 2m 29s | Archaeology reveals trade with Chaco, including chocolate and precious metals. (2m 29s)

The Best Time to Paddle

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 1m 29s | The Chumash continue canoe paddling traditions to connect to their ancestors. (1m 29s)

Ancient Amazon Peoples

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Clip: 10/23/2018 | 3m 3s | Ancient art suggests people have been in the Americas much longer than previously thought. (3m 3s)