Location: Colorado Length: 24 min.
Sheltered from the centuries, the Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde cling to sandstone ledges, as if clinging to another time. The stone villages serve as our best window into the world of the ancient puebloans…
Location: Nevada Length: 4 min
Mike Williams is a member of the Walker River Paiute band from Fallon, Nevada. Inspired by the tule work duck decoys found in the local Lovelock Cave excavations of the 1920s, he experimented and learned to replicate the prehistoric tule work…
Location: Peru Length: 6 min
Mochican iconography comes to life in this animated film, which portrays a ceremony of sacrifice carried out by the Moche culture in coastal Peru between A.D. 100 and 800…
A story of two fascinating archaeological sites that essentially bookend 10,000+ years of human habitation in the Big Sky Country…
Location: Alabama Length: 17 min.
Eight hundred years ago a fortified town stood on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Alabama. It was a prehistoric metropolis, the ceremonial heart of an advanced Mississippian society…
Location: Brazil Length: 13 min
This imaginative drama is based on an indigenous tale from the Amazon forest, in which young Naia learns from her tribe’s elders stories of how the stars in the sky came to be. According to legend, the moon came out at night in search of the most beautiful Indian girls…
Location: Georgia, USA Length: 25 min
New Echota was the first capitol of the Cherokee Nation from 1825–1838 prior to the Cherokee's forced removal from the Southeast, marking the beginning of the "Trail of Tears"…
Location: Utah Length: 14 min
Take a journey through time with Mrs. Ludington's 4th Grade students of Creekview Elementary School, Price, Utah. Nine Mile Canyon, on the Colorado Plateau, offers a wonderful opportunity for kids and grownups to examine the changing landscapes and cultural traditions of the past 90 million years…
The film features the Beacon Island Site, a bison kill site archaeologists believe was occupied during the Paleo-Indian period…
Location: Oregon Length: 17 min
By training young people, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have been working for more than a decade to improve Native American involvement in the management of archaeological and cultural resources…