Previews + Extras
Episode 4 Preview | New World Rising
S1 E4 - 30s
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.
Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments
S1 E4 - 2m 52s
Art historian Diana Magaloni illuminates the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to preserve their culture in the Florentine Codex. Using colors and materials that possessed energies from the natural world, they imbued their paintings with a special symbolic life force.
Extended Interview: Evidence of the Comanche
S1 E4 - 2m 15s
Archaeologist Severin Fowles, with the help of tribal cultural consultants, finds evidence of the illusive Comanche. Hundred of images etched into rocks sheds a whole new light on perhaps the most successful post-contact Native empires.
Extended Interview: Severin Fowles on Native Science
S1 E4 - 1m 25s
Archaeologist Severin Fowles re-imagines Native religion as Native science. So many of what have been traditionally described as “beliefs” are actually profound scientific methods for acting in the world.
Extended Interview: Burning a Forest to Revive a People
S1 E4 - 3m 23s
Valentin Lopez, the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of California, reflects on how reviving ancient environmental practices is helping to revive his peoples culture. Although nearly lost, through oral traditions and new collaborations with archaeologists, he and his people can save the California forests and keep ancient traditions alive.
Aztec Resistance
S1 E4 - 2m 6s
Spaniards built a Catholic Church on top of an Aztec holy site, but resistance begun by Aztec builders continues through today.
Comanche Horse Traditions
S1 E4 - 1m 59s
Horses continue to be an important part of Comanche identity and tradition.
Weaving Grass Bridges
S1 E4 - 3m 2s
In Peru, people still build traditional Inca grass bridges.
Maya Blue
S1 E4 - 1m 8s
How the Aztecs used color to represent the aftermath of colonialism.
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