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Cities of the Sky

Season 1 Episode 3 | 53m 30s

Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world’s largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.

Aired: 11/12/18 | Expires: 12/07/24
Funding is provided by Partnership with Native Americans.
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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.
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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.
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?