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Native America

At the intersection of Native knowledge and modern scholarship is a new vision of America and its people.
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  1. S1 E1 - From Caves to Cosmos
    October 22, 2018
    54min
    13+
    From Caves to Cosmos traces ancient knowledge and cutting-edge science to answer a 15,000 year-old-question: who were America’s First People? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, and on the waves off California’s coast.
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  2. S1 E2 - Nature to Nations
    October 29, 2018
    54min
    TV-PG
    Shared beliefs give rise to governments from dictatorships to America’s first democracy. The hour investigates lost cities in the Mexican jungle, a subterranean temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest, and a tapestry of shell beads whose story inspires the US government.
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  3. S1 E3 - Cities of the Sky
    November 12, 2018
    54min
    13+
    Cities of the Sky reveals the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. An archaeologist explores some of the world’s largest pyramids, scientists 3d-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River, and native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.
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  4. S1 E4 - New World Rising
    November 12, 2018
    54min
    13+
    New World Rising - Native Americans tap ten thousand years of traditions to fight the forces of Conquest. Successful survival is revealed in an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, encoded messages in an Aztec manuscript, and weaving a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time.
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