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Native Americans

Within History
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16 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Native American figure with black covering on face holds up weapon in each hand. Second figure lunges in background. Caption. And one of the greatest warrior chiefs.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 6
28 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man looks at camera and parts lips mid-speech. Backdrop displays black and white illustration of shirtless man falling forward with hair swept up behind him. Caption. One on the eastern seaboard near present-day Boston.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 4
28 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of the midsection of a woman with long, dark hair. Caption. Sarah was also the first American Indian.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 7
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color illustration of a hunter with long, dark hair aiming a spear at two deer by a lake. Caption. Hurled with a unique and powerful tool.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 2
28 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of sprawling red rock formations. Caption. Resting between the Rocky Mountains on the east.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 3
28 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man looks down at camera and parts lips in mid-speech. Backdrop displays painting of a militia bearing an American flag and facing off against Native Americans in battle.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 5
25 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 2
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Digital illustration of green topographical map with brown cutouts of the human figure marking various locations. Caption. It honors the indigenous people who lived on the land.
All About the Holidays
Episode 36
1 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of the ancient mud brick buildings and kivas of Mesa Verde under a sandstone cliff. Caption. "Mesa Verde rewrote the history of the west."
Around the World
Episode 29
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a baler turning over a bale of hay.
26 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wears polo and stands in a room. His mouth is open in mid-speech. Caption. It's a great day to learn about history.
Constitution Hall Pass
Episode 4
19 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of teenagers wearing yellow t-shirts shirts exit vans, stepping out onto a field. Caption. Man as narrator. Hi, guys.
1 hours 23 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 7
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Narrow river wends through lush green landscape. Caption. Male as narrator. On rolling hills that comprise the river valley.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 8
11 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American person on horseback rides off into the distant sunset. Caption. We have a right to speak about it.
29 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala surrounded by trees. Caption. Father Junipero Serra.
The Missions Of California
Episode 5
8 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Caption. All who and all who hear the ringing of its bells.
The Missions Of California
Episode 6
7 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of a fountain in front of the arches of the Mission Santa Barbara. Caption. So soundly was this water system engineered that, remarkably.
The Missions Of California
Episode 9
9 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Inuk man wearing a fur coat walks away from a hunting shelter, hilly terrain covered in snow. Caption. Grandfathers. Are you ready, Nuligak?
24 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Closeup of light reflecting on water and a tangle of branches at bottom right of frame. Caption. Have just crossed the dominant geographical feature.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 3
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large barn next to small red buildings shrouded by trees beneath a dusky sky. Caption. Pipestone is a billion and a half-year-old.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 9
11 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Treetop view of forested area with rolling hills peeking through in background. Caption. Not the uniformity of summer's full foliage.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 1
11 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wooden sign with white figure aiming a spear-like arrow. Sign reads, "Russell Cave National Monument." Caption. Male as narrator. The monument's sign marks the entrance.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 2
11 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a man with a stoic expression wearing vibrant yellow, red, orange, and white ceremonial regalia.
6 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American man in a head dress and traditional clothing gesturing with his hands. Come straight, buffalo! Caption: This extraordinary film from 1930 shows "Plains indian sign language," or "Hand talk."
Science Nation
Episode 163
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman in a black blazer stands next to a large computer monitor. She looks past camera as her hands gesture with thumbs and pointer fingers bent parallel to 1 another to form brackets.
Science Nation
Episode 103
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Covered wagon is drawn by horses through a field. Man walking and a man riding a horse follow behind. Caption. And for the 5,000 immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 10
11 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American person speaking into camera with an image of snowy mountains as a backdrop. Caption. It took years to develop the self-image you possess.
18 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon. Profile view of a rabbit named, Wesakechak, looking downward at a shrub and speaking to a bear who holds a small branch with fruit on it. Caption. There's that awful name again.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 1
13 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face with eyes looking towards camera and its mouth slightly open as if speaking. Caption. The wolf clan tells us it's a land far to the north.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 5
12 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face with eyes looking towards camera and mouth slightly open as if speaking. Caption. During the season of the falling leaves.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 4
12 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 4
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face and neck. Wolf's eyes look slightly to the side and its mouth is gently open in a calm expression. Caption. Much higher.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 3
12 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Wide angle view of a section of a mountain range and slopes covered in snow and ice. Caption. Cub as narrator. What are glaciers?
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 2
12 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cartoon. Closeup of a freshly cut tree that was growing on a snowy slope. Sound of crashing.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 6
13 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
English soldiers march through the fog, moving towards a distant blaze. Caption. Mad Anthony's troops indiscriminately destroy.
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Woman stands in front of a gold curtain and sings into a microphone. Lyrical caption. Sound of singing. And I just stopped growin'?
Teens 101
Episode 7
21 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photos of a Native American woman and man wearing medals around their necks. Caption. Like currency used to purchase loyalty.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 52
10 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
3 wooden sailing ships with large masts and British flags sail on the calm, open sea. Caption. If he hopes to found his own colonies in North America.
Pocahontas and the Survival of Jamestown
Episode 1
28 minutes
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Closeup of a man with short blonde hair wearing a gray pinstripe suit talking in front of a blurred background. Caption. And relations between the colony and the Indians.
Pocahontas and the Survival of Jamestown
Episode 2
25 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
2 Inuk children lay on a sled pulled through the snow by 4 Huskies. 2 children follow behind.
14 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Close up of a young girl looking down and facing a senior person in a headscarf whose back faces camera. Caption. And if he was, all you have to do.
22 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Indigenous woman with braided pigtails wears a traditional red costume with glitter and a cape with long multicolored fringe as she dances.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 1
8 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view of an industrial kitchen counter with 4 women wearing white hair nets while they prepare to mix and bake something in silver mixing bowls and springform pans. 1 woman on the left side takes a paper from a woman on the right.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 2
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Team of lacrosse players in uniform form a circle on the side of a rainy neighborhood street at dusk. They hold their black and white lacrosse sticks up and together in the center, and some players wear Santa hats.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 3
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Men in military uniform sit amongst civilians in a crowd of people. Caption. Man 2 as narrator. That at Iwo Jima, all those who fought.
20 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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