Episode 3 Preview | Cities of the Sky
Season 1
Episode 3
About the Episode
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.
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Extras
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Season 1 Official Trailer
Native America explores the world created by America’s First Peoples.0:30 -
Native America Season 2 | Extended Trailer
Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country.2:47 -
Extended Interview: Ian Thompson on Ancient Earthen Mounds
The Choctaw scholar reflects on the ancient tradition of earthen mounds and mound culture.3:35 -
Episode 4 Preview | New World Rising
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.0:30 -
Extended Interview: The Importance of Names
Zuni elder Jim Enote explains how Native names for places provides important information.2:36 -
Extended Interview: The Earliest Cave Paintings in America
Anna Roosevelt dates the cave paintings in Brazil’s Amazon jungle to 13,000 years ago.2:58 -
Episode 1 Preview | From Caves to Cosmos
Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?0:30 -
Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments
Illuminating the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to record their culture.2:52 -
Extended Interview: Evidence of the Comanche
With help, the archaeologist finds evidence of the illusive Comanche.2:15 -
Extended Interview: Severin Fowles on Native Science
Archaeologist Severin Fowles re-imagines Native religion as Native science.1:25
