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Explore the cultural stories featured in Native America through animation.

Choctaw traditions link their mounds with their ancestors, corn, and the sky.
A temple at the center of Cuzco, Peru, marks the place of Inca origins.
The gods gather in Teotihuacan to sacrifice themselves in order to create the world.
Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
Episodes
Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?
Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies.
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities.
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration.
Extras
Designer Jamie Okuma breaks down barriers between Indigenous and mainstream art.
Aaron Yazzie and TahNibaa Naataanii reflect on the birth of the universe.
Manny Wheeler dubs Star Wars into Navajo to help keep the Navajo language alive.
Language expert Tom Belt translates some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing.
Manny Wheeler fights to preserve his people's language dubbing popular movies into Navajo.
The Halluci Nation performs "R.E.D.," "Stay," and "Sisters" in this extended performance.
Producer Dan Golding is surprised with 100-year-old recordings of his great-grandfather.
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.