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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.

Contributors:

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, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Subjects:

Indians of North America — Antiquities

Indians of North America — History

Indians of North America — Social life and customs

Indians of North America — Ethnic identity

Indians of North America — Folklore

Indians of North America

United States

Genres:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Online media

Internet videos

History

Performers:

Narrator, Robbie Robertson.

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 25, 2019).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (54 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1096481452

Other Control Numbers:

4062364 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP4062364/avon