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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.

Donald Soctomah and Dwayne Tomah fight keep the Passamaquoddy language alive.
Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
Manny Wheeler dubs Star Wars into Navajo to help keep the Navajo language alive.
Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
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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 how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities.
Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies.
Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?
Specials
Make a salad of all Native greens from the oak woodlands.
Learn how to make this staple dish, which is part of nearly every meal in a Cherokee home.
Sumac berries lend themselves for a lemony-earthy flavored spice or in a beverage.
A temple at the center of Cuzco, Peru, marks the place of Inca origins.
Choctaw traditions link their mounds with their ancestors, corn, and the sky.
Many Native American peoples share a belief that they emerged from the earth.
The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding.
The Comanche adapt the horse as a powerful ally in the fight to protect their way of life.
The gods gather in Teotihuacan to sacrifice themselves in order to create the world.
Extras
Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
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.
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.
The Halluci Nation, an electronic music group, put a new spin on traditional Native beats.
Henry Red Cloud reimagines tipi communities on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration.
Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country.
Donald Soctomah (Passamaquoddy) on the connection between his tribe and Catholic church.
Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country.
Betty Osceola draws on Miccosukee teachings about protecting the world in which we live.
Arigon Starr is an award-winning singer songwriter, playwright, and comic book creator.
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.
The Halluci Nation performs "R.E.D.," "Stay," and "Sisters" in this extended performance.
Manny Wheeler fights to preserve his people's language dubbing popular movies into Navajo.
Aaron Yazzie and TahNibaa Naataanii reflect on the birth of the universe.
Valentin Lopez, of the Amah Mutsun, uses fire to save his peoples culture.
Illuminating the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to record their culture.
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
With help, the archaeologist finds evidence of the illusive Comanche.
Archaeologist Severin Fowles re-imagines Native religion as Native science.
How the Aztecs used color to represent the aftermath of colonialism.
In Peru, people still build traditional Inca grass bridges.
Resistance begun by Aztec builders continues through today.
Horses continue to be an important part of Comanche identity and tradition.
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities.