Culture

Native America

Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country. This four-part Native directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century.

Make Ohlone Salad

4m 33s

Make a salad of all Native greens from the oak woodlands.

Episodes

  • New World Rising: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    New World Rising

    S1 E4 - 53m 31s

    Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in an Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries.

  • Cities of the Sky: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cities of the Sky

    S1 E3 - 53m 31s

    Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world’s largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.

  • Nature to Nations: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nature to Nations

    S1 E2 - 53m 31s

    Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.

  • From Caves to Cosmos: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    From Caves to Cosmos

    S1 E1 - 53m 31s

    Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America’s First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and waves off California’s coast.

Extras + Features

  • Language Protectors: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 4 Preview | Language Is Life: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 3 Preview | Women Rule: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 2 Preview | Warrior Spirit: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Going for Gold: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Episode 1 Preview | New Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Halluci Nation Rocks Brooklyn: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Solar Warrior: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • From Church to Memorial in Passamaquoddy: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Official Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Official Preview

    S2 - 30s

    Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country. This four-part Native directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century.

  • Reading Between the Lines in Cherokee: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Reading Between the Lines in Cherokee

    S2 - 5m 3s

    Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians archaeologist Beau Carrol and Cherokee Nation citizen and historian Julie Reed explore a cave containing some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing. Tom Belt, an expert on the Cherokee writing system, translates the words, but to understand what they mean, he needs to provide the when and why they were written.

  • The Halluci Nation Puts a New Spin On a Traditional Beat: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Halluci Nation Puts a New Spin On a Traditional Beat

    S2 - 8m 45s

    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. The Halluci Nation performs "R.E.D.," "Stay," and "Sisters" in this extended performance.

Schedule

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