Language Is Life
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
Episodes
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Language Is Life
S2 E4 - 53m 25s
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
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Women Rule
S2 E3 - 53m 15s
Native women are leading, innovating, and inspiring in the arts, politics, and protecting the planet. Native America explores the diverse ways they carry forward deep traditions to better their communities, their lands, and the world.
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Warrior Spirit
S2 E2 - 53m 25s
Across Native America, warrior traditions support incredible athletes and connect people to combat, games, and glory. Celebrate and honor the men and women who live and breathe this legacy today.
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New Worlds
S2 E1 - 53m 35s
Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration. From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip hop scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.
Extras + Features
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Navajo Star Wars
S2 E4 - 5m 50s
May the Fourth is a special night at the West Winds Drive-In in Glendale Arizona where Manny Wheeler is screening Star Wars, dubbed into Navajo. It's one of many innovative ways of preserving Native languages.
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Language Protectors
S2 E4 - 5m 34s
Donald Soctomah and Dwayne Tomah are on a mission to keep the Passamaquoddy language alive and get back stolen land. They will be aided by a remarkable discovery - 130-year-old recordings on wax cylinders.
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Episode 4 Preview | Language Is Life
S2 E4 - 30s
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
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Episode 3 Preview | Women Rule
S2 E3 - 30s
Native women are leading, innovating, and inspiring in the arts, politics, and protecting the planet. Native America explores the diverse ways they carry forward deep traditions to better their communities, their lands, and the world.
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Fashion Forever
S2 E3 - 5m 1s
By embracing her Native identity, Jamie Okuma is breaking down the barriers between Indigenous and mainstream art. Jamie’s work is both high fashion and fine art. Her boots and clothing can be found in the pages of fashion magazines, in major museums, and on the red carpet.
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Episode 2 Preview | Warrior Spirit
S2 E2 - 30s
Across Native America, warrior traditions support incredible athletes and connect people to combat, games, and glory. Celebrate and honor the men and women who live and breathe this legacy today.
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Going for Gold
S2 E2 - 5m 11s
18-year-old Mariah Bahe, seven time national amateur boxing champion, taps into warrior spirit to achieve her dream of serving in the military and representing the US and Navajo Nation in the Olympics.
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Episode 1 Preview | New Worlds
S2 E1 - 30s
Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration. From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip hop scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.
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Halluci Nation Rocks Brooklyn
S2 E1 - 4m 13s
In a club in Brooklyn, Bear Witness and Tim 2oolman Hill, the duo behind The Halluci Nation, an electronic music group, are putting a new spin on a traditional beat and taking power over how they represent themselves and Indigenous people.
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Spider Woman on Mars
S2 E1 - 4m 40s
NASA engineer Aaron Yazzie and Navajo master weaver TahNibaa Naataanii reflect on the role of weaving in the birth of the universe at the place where it all began: Spider Rock, a holy monument at the heart of sacred Canyon de Chelly.
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Solar Warrior
S2 E1 - 5m 31s
Henry Red Cloud is creating a sustainable solar powered housing for the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation using modern materials but based on the design of traditional tipi communities.
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From Church to Memorial in Passamaquoddy
S2 - 1m 30s
Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Donald Soctomah visits an abandoned Catholic Church in Sipayik, Maine. His tribe has tried to reclaim the building but the diocese has refused. Regardless, the tribe has turned the church into a memorial for the many Passamaquoddy children who never returned from church-run boarding schools.
Schedule
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Native America
From Caves to Cosmos
Saturday
Nov 2
1 Hour
Researching the identity of America's first peoples leads to Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and waves off California's coast. -
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Native America
Nature to Nations
Saturday
Nov 2
1 Hour
The rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies; lost cities in Mexico; a temple in Peru; a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest; shell beads in upstate New York. -
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Native America
From Caves to Cosmos
Sunday
Nov 3
1 Hour
Researching the identity of America's first peoples leads to Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and waves off California's coast. -
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Native America
Nature to Nations
Sunday
Nov 3
1 Hour
The rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies; lost cities in Mexico; a temple in Peru; a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest; shell beads in upstate New York. -
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Native America
From Caves to Cosmos
Saturday
Nov 9
1 Hour
Researching the identity of America's first peoples leads to Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and waves off California's coast. -
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Native America
Nature to Nations
Saturday
Nov 9
1 Hour
The rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies; lost cities in Mexico; a temple in Peru; a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest; shell beads in upstate New York. -
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Native America
Cities of the Sky
Saturday
Nov 9
1 Hour
Exploring America's ancient cities; a lost city on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky. -
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Native America
New World Rising
Saturday
Nov 9
1 Hour
Examples of resistance, survival and revival are revealed through horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages in an Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes. -
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Native America
Cities of the Sky
Sunday
Nov 10
1 Hour
Exploring America's ancient cities; a lost city on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky. -
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Native America
New World Rising
Sunday
Nov 10
1 Hour
Examples of resistance, survival and revival are revealed through horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages in an Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes.
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