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From Caves to Cosmos

Season 1 Episode 1 | 53m 30s

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.

Aired: 10/22/18 | Expires: 11/30/24
Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
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Donald Soctomah and Dwayne Tomah fight keep the Passamaquoddy language alive.
Manny Wheeler dubs Star Wars into Navajo to help keep the Navajo language alive.
Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
Boxer Mariah Bahe fights for her dream of repping the US and Navajo Nation in the Olympics
Celebrate the spirit empowering combat, games and athleticism.
Designer Jamie Okuma breaks down barriers between Indigenous and mainstream art.
Language expert Tom Belt translates some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing.
Producer Dan Golding is surprised with 100-year-old recordings of his great-grandfather.
Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country.
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Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
Celebrate the spirit empowering combat, games and athleticism.
Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration.
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities.
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies.