Building on the success of the first season, this four-part Native directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world. All episodes now streaming.
Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to "Star Wars" films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.
Lauren Stevens, a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, sings on the shore of Pine Island.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Dwayne Tomah holds an eagle feather on Pine Island, a portion of the Passamaquoddy tribe's traditional homelands that was stolen in the 19th century and recently returned to his people.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Dwayne Tomah, a language keeper of the Passamaquoddy, leads the community in song as they welcome back and celebrate the recovery of Pine Island.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Members of the Passamaquoddy tribe Donald Soctomah and Dwayne Tomah visit Pine Island, a recently restored portion of their traditional homeland.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Navajo Nation member Manny Wheeler watches the Navajo version of "Star Wars" at a Glendale drive-in.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Manny Wheeler leads the Navajo dubbing cast of "A Fistful of Dollars" to the recording studio in Gallup, New Mexico.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Sophie Shorty and her family, four generations of Navajo women, carry forward the powerful legacy of the Navajo language into the 21st century.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Andy Harvey (Navajo) speaks into the microphone at Knifewing Studios, as part of the Navajo dub of the classic Western "A Fistfull of Dollars."| Credit: Providence Pictures
Fluent Cherokee speaker Tom Belt is one of the leading experts on the language and Tsalagi syllabary, the Cherokee writing system.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Archaeologists Julie Reed (Cherokee) and Beau Carroll (Cherokee) operate cutting edge technology to bring faint, 19th century Cherokee cave inscriptions back to life.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Archaeologists Julie Reed (Cherokee) and Beau Carroll (Cherokee) operate cutting edge technology to bring faint, 19th century Cherokee cave inscriptions back to life.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Navajo weaver TahNibaa Naataanii and her mother Sarah Naataanii apply generations of closely held mathematical knowledge to create stunning geometric patterns.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Navajo weaver TahNibaa Naataanii shows some of her woven designs to engineer Aaron Yazzie.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Engineer Aaron Yazzie and weaver TahNibaa Naataanii approach Spider Rock, a sacred site in Canyon De Chelly, in the heart of Navajo Nation.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Chief Henry Red Cloud (Oglala Lakota) brings together Native tradition and cutting-edge solar technology at the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Oglala Lakota Elder, and traditional Chief, Henry Red Cloud leads a team of builders in constructing a groundbreaking new type of Native-inspired housing at the Pine Ridge Reservation.| Credit: Providence Pictures
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Aaron Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation, prepares to do work on the earthbound "twin" of the Perseverance Rover currently rolling across the surface of Mars.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Media Artists Bear Witness (Cayuga) and Tim 2oolman Hill (Mohawk) are the duo behind The Halluci Nation, an award-winning electronic music group that puts a new spin on traditional beats.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Acclaimed electronic DJ collective, The Halluci Nation, gets the crowd going in a packed Brooklyn club.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Aerospace engineer Aaron Yazzie (Navajo) smudges astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw) with an eagle feather that flew with Herrington on the Space Shuttle.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Engineer Aaron Yazzie (Navajo) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (left) and Astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw), the first Native American in space (center), meet with students from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.| Credit: Providence Pictures
NASA aerospace engineer Aaron Yazzie (Navajo) stargazes in Canyon De Chelly in Navajo Nation, Arizona.| Credit: Providence Pictures
On the Flathead Reservation in Montana, 15-year-old Dillon Irvine trains for the upcoming Indian Relay Championship.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Team Dancing Boy Express poses before they mount their horses and take to the track for the Indian Relay Championship in Blackfoot, ID.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Ilona Spruce, Taos Pueblo Director of Tourism, shares the legacy of the Pueblo Revolt as she walks the banks of the Rio Grande.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Gil Vigil, former governor of Tesuque Pueblo and director of the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, fights to ensure the legacy of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers is never forgotten.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Pojoaque Pueblo artist George Rivera (right) reveals the bronze statue he created to honor Catua and Umtua - the martyred runners from Tesuque Pueblo who laid down their lives to help defeat the Spanish Empire in 1680.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Sculptor George Rivera (Pojoaque) stands outside his studio in Santa Fe, NM.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Ultra marathoner Christian Gering (San Felipe) retraces some of the routes the Pueblos used to successfully rebel against Spanish colonizers in 1680.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Before she leaves for the Marines, Mariah Bahe (Navajo) and her father, John Bahe, visit a World War 2 memorial that honors her grandfather and his fellow Navajo Code Talkers.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Military veteran Steve Collins (Navajo) walks amateur boxing champion Mariah Bahe (Navajo) through some weapons training before she sets off for the US Marine Corps Boot Camp.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Mariah Bahe (Navajo), a seven time national amateur boxing champion, hopes to represent the US and Navajo Nation at the 2024 Olympics.| Credit: Providence Pictures
In an election year, Representative Ruth Buffalo, an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, is fighting to continue representing North Dakota's District 27.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Representative Ruth Buffalo (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation) uses her position as the first Democratic Native American woman in North Dakota’s State Legislature to fight for disadvantaged people and communities.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Artist Jamie Okuma (Shoshone-Bannock/Luiseño) poses with models who will be showcasing her work at the annual Southwestern Association of American Indian Art’s fashion show.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Through her bold designs and dynamic approach to Native traditions, artist and designer Jamie Okuma (Shoshone-Bannock/Luiseño) has helped propel Native art onto the global stage.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Fashion artist Jamie Okuma (Shoshone-Bannock/Luiseño) joins curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) at the Southwestern Association of American Indian Art’s annual fashion show.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Environmental advocate Betty Osceola (Miccosukee) pilots her fan boat through the Everglades.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Drawing on generations of Miccosukee teachings, activist Betty Osceola uses long held traditions to protect and preserve the Everglades.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Multimedia artist Arigon Starr (Kickapoo) uses songs, plays and comic books to create a new and authentic image of Indian Country and fight stereotypes.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Multimedia artist Arigon Starr (Kickapoo) records some of her favorite songs in front of a live audience at the Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Arigon Starr (Kickapoo) is an award-winning singer songwriter and the creator of the cult-classic Native comic book "Super Indian."| Credit: Providence Pictures
Thirty feet beneath the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Archeologist Sergio Gomez stares into the eyes of an 1800 year old vessel depicting Tlaloc – Teotihuacan's god of rain.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Nearly 1000 years after their ancestors first built this kiva, Hopi elders return to Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito to conduct a ceremony.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Park Ranger GB Cornucopia demonstrates how the Great Houses of Chaco Canyon are aligned to the sun and seasons.| Credit: Providence Pictures
This is an important dance in the potlatch ceremony that will make Alan Hunt a Kwakwaka'wakw Hereditary Chief.| Credit: Providence Pictures
These artists work tirelessly to carve a cedar tree into a prominent figure in the Kwakwaka’wakw culture - Moon.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Onondaga tribal elder Sid Hill reads a wampum shell-bead belt that commemorates the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun, one of the largest anywhere on earth, covers an area of two football fields - larger than the base at the Great Pyramid in Egypt.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Tenoned heads line the staircase of the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, where, deep inside, Sergio Gomez is excavating a new discovery.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Meet Les Williston from Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma. He’s at the site of the Choctaw creation in Nanih Waiya, Mississippi. He's a Faithkeeper and Medicine Man but his official title is Cultural Specialist.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Comanche artist Jhane Myers and archaeologist Severin Fowles find some of the earliest evidence for something that would change indigenous North America forever - the horse.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Principle Chief of the Natchez tribe, Hutke Fields, introduces a new generation to their heritage.| Credit: Providence Pictures
Morgan Tosee has kept the Comanche people's special connection to the horse alive for generations.| Credit: Providence Pictures
For the Amah Mutsun Tribe of California, controlled burns represent a way to take care of and reinforce their connection to the forest.| Credit: Providence Pictures
