Native America
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This episode reveals the strength of Native American cultural continuity in the face of genocidal warfare and history’s worst demographic devastation. Native Americans tap ten thousand years of beliefs to fight and survive the forces of Conquest. 53:40 Expired
This episode explores the creation of some of the ancient world’s largest and most splendid cities. But what inspired people across Native America inspired to build their cities? Answers are revealed in the American urban centres that bloomed from the Mexican jungle, a multi-cultural city in Central Mexico that is among th... 51:25 Expired
Shared beliefs give rise to governments from dictatorships to America’s first democracy. This episode investigates lost cities in the Mexican jungle, a subterranean temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest, and a tapestry of shell beads whose story inspires the US government. 51:26 Expired
This episode focuses on the deep roots of Native America. It is an adventure of discovery started by a stunning discovery in a lost city of the American Southwest - evidence that its ancient residents drank chocolate, grown thousands of miles to the south in the jungles of Mexico. This sparks a bold new question - could na...