Native America. Episode 2, Nature to nations / directed by Gary Glassman, Joseph C. Sousa, Scott Tiffany ; series producer, Julianna Brannum ; produced by Julianna Brannum, Gary Glassman, Joseph C. Sousa, Scott Tiffany, Rob Tinworth.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Tiffany, Scott, director, producer.

Glassman, Gary, director, producer.

Tinworth, Rob, producer.

Sousa, Joseph C., producer.

Brannum, Julianna, producer.

Robertson, Robbie, narrator.

Providence Pictures, Inc., production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America--Folklore.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes)

Other Title:

Nature to nations

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day. This series explores this extraordinary world through an unprecedented combination of cutting edge science and traditional indigenous knowledge. It is Native America as never seen before -featuring sacred rituals filmed for the first time, history changing scientific discoveries, and rarely heard voices from the living legacy of Native American culture. Native America rediscovers a past whose splendor and sophistication is only now being realized, and whose story has for too long remained untold. It reveals a unifying belief that inspires these diverse cultures - people are deeply connected to earth, sky, water, and all living things. This belief is rooted in millennia of living on this land and continues to resonate in the lives of Native Americans to this day. Nature to Nations explores the rise of great American nations, from dynastic monarchies to participatory democracies. What lies behind these diverse and sophisticated governments? Answers emerge from an archaeologist excavating America's oldest temple in the Peruvian Andes, a tribe initiating a new chief at a ceremony surrounded by cedar totem poles in the Pacific Northwest, an expert reading ancient hieroglyphs from a sarcophagus to tell a forgotten history of Maya kings, and the return of an ancient shell wampum belt to the birthplace of democracy near Syracuse, New York.

Participant:

Narrator, Robbie Robertson.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 25, 2019).

OCLC:

1096481452