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PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced NATIVE AMERICA , a new four-part series from Providence Pictures that will premiere Fall 2018 on PBS stations nationwide.

Weaving history and science with living indigenous traditions, the series brings to life a land of massive cities connected by social networks spanning two continents, with unique and sophisticated systems of science, art and writing.

Made with the active participation of Native- American communities and filmed in some of the most spectacular locations in the hemisphere, NATIVE AMERICA reveals an ancient and still thriving culture whose splendor and ingenuity is only now beginning to be fully understood and appreciated.

Recent discoveries informed by Native-American oral histories have led to a bold new perspective on North and South America – that ancient people across these two continents may have been part of a single interconnected world. This and other research is leading to revelations that will forever change how we understand Native America.

The series highlights intimate Native-American traditions and follows field archaeologists using 21st-century tools such as multispectral imaging and DNA analysis to uncover incredible narratives of America’s past, venturing into Amazonian caves containing the Americas’ earliest art and interactive solar calendar, exploring a massive tunnel beneath a pyramid at the center of one of ancient America’s largest cities and mapping the heavens in celestially aligned cities.

“NATIVE AMERICA is an extraordinary portal to the past and window to the present,” said Beth Hoppe, PBS Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming. “The latest scholarship and research have shattered earlier conceptions of indigenous culture and civilization, revealing vast social networks and shared beliefs that have bridged the generations and that continue to flourish in Native-American communities today.”


Narrated by Robbie Robertson (Mohawk and member of the famed rock group The Band), each hour of NATIVE AMERICA explores Great Nations and reveals cities, sacred stories and history long hidden in plain sight. In what is now America’s Southwest, indigenous people built stone skyscrapers with untold spiritual power and transformed deserts into fertile fields.


In upstate New York, warriors renounced war and formed America’s first democracy 500 years before the Declaration of Independence, later inspiring Benjamin Franklin. On the banks of the Mississippi, rulers raised a metropolis of pyramids from swampland and drew thousands to their new city to worship the sky. And in the American West, nomadic tribes transformed a weapon of conquest — the horse — into a new way of life, turning the tables on European invaders and building a mobile empire.
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Responses to "PBS Announces Native America, New Four-Part Series Premiering Fall 2018"

  1. please keep me posted on this.

  2. This appears to be an amazing series! SO wonderful to bring all these vital stories and histories together. In 1989, I walked the 900 mile route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears to increase Awareness about the Trail and the Cherokee. I sold all I owned to finance the two-month life'altering trek. and Dee Brown, author Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, endorsed my resulting book that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize: Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, now required reading in some schools across the USA and in Germany.

  3. I can't wait to see it. The truth must be told and take away all the lies that's was told about our ppl

  4. Unknown says:

    I am now retired but I wrote as a reporter, columnist, etc for 58 years and I have many friends on Pine Ride Rez........thank you for the series. Tell the story straight.......no white man's version !!

  5. Nats says:

    Do we have a date yet for our calendars?

  6. What are the dates?

  7. Unknown says:

    I sure hope you can post "reminders" and give dates of when this will air!!! I look forward to it and YES, Truth from the Original People's, not some glossed over, romanticized versions <3

  8. To everyone asking, the first episode premieres October 23 on PBS!

  9. Cleo says:

    Looking forward to watching with a group of family and friends.

  10. Unknown says:

    Please let us know what the date is and time thank you, Harold Bearson Priddy Diehl Boise Idaho

  11. Peter G says:

    Definitely on my must watch list!

  12. Unknown says:

    So exactly when is this going to air? I haven't heard a thing about a date; please let us know!! Miigwetch. ❤

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