At the intersection of Native knowledge and modern scholarship is a new vision of America and its people.
Native America airs Monday, November 2 -26 at 7 p.m. n WXXI-WORLD and streaming on the WXXI and PBA apps.
Native America is a series that challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.
The series explores this extraordinary world through an unprecedented combination of cutting edge science and traditional indigenous knowledge. It is Native America as never seen before—featuring traditional knowledge held by America’s first peoples, history-changing scientific discoveries, and rarely heard voices from the living legacies of Native American cultures.
Episodes:
Monday, November 2:
7pm Native America From Caves to Cosmos I Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?
8pm Native America Nature to Nations I Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies.
Monday, November 9:
7pm Native America Cities of the Sky I Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. (53m 30s)
8pm Native America New World Rising I Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed. (53m 30s)
Monday, November 16:
7pm Native America New Worlds I Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
8pm Native America Warrior Spirit I Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
Monday, November 22:
7pm Native America Women Rule I Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
8pm Native America Language is Life I Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.