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Extended Interview: David Carrasco on Shared Beliefs

David Carrasco illuminates the similarities of the religious beliefs shared by indigenous peoples across the Americas. These similarities include sky worship including the sun and moon, the power of water, sacrality of trees, and human relationships to animal spirits.
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Nature to Nations
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From Caves to Cosmos
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Extended Interview: The Earliest Cave Paintings in America
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Extended Interview: David Carrasco on Shared Beliefs
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Extended Interview: The Importance of Names
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Chaco Chocolate
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Ancient Amazon Peoples
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Zuni Maps
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The Best Time to Paddle
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Season 1 Inside Look | Making Native America
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From Caves to Cosmos - S1 E1

Premiered On: 10/23/2018

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.

  • Sunday October 4, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
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Nature to Nations - S1 E2

Premiered On: 10/30/2018

Explore the rise of great American nations. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest, and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.

  • Sunday October 4, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
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Cities of the Sky - S1 E3

Premiered On: 11/13/2018

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.

  • Sunday October 11, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
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  • Tuesday October 13, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
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New World Rising - S1 E4

Premiered On: 11/13/2018

Discover how resistance, survival, and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time.

  • Sunday October 11, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
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New Worlds - S2 E1

Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration. From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip hop scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.

  • Sunday October 18, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
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Warrior Spirit - S2 E2

Across Native America, warrior traditions support incredible athletes and connect people to combat, games and glory.

  • Sunday October 18, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
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