![]() ♪ ♪ Together they are finding the first physical evidence of the ancient Comanche: images etched in stone. It took working with the tribe to be able to identify this site as a center of Comanche activity. Jhane is a Comanche artist and cultural adviser.įOWLES: We just didn't have the eyes to see their traces on the ground. NARRATOR: Sev is an anthropologist from Barnard College in New York. Well, and that makes it one of the great archaeological challenges. They were able to just pack up their camp and move. MEYERS: Well, the Comanches, by having the horse, it made them so mobile. ![]() (bird calling) FOWLES: For so many decades, archaeologists have walked over this landscape and actually never found any evidence of the Comanche on the ground. (horses neighing) Yet this powerful people are famous for disappearing- quickly breaking camp and leaving no sign they were ever there. ♪ ♪ Comanche tradition says this gorge was once a home, the landscape dotted with hundreds of tipis, thousands of people, and across their lands, tens of thousands of horses. They are on the trail of a fearsome Native American people that dominated the American Southwest for centuries and used this gorge to elude capture. ![]() High mountain cliffs, steep rocky slopes, and deep valleys covered in scrub brush make this unwelcoming terrain- except to bighorn sheep.īut the inhospitable landscape is why Severin Fowles and Jhane Myers are here. If you have enemies hunting you down, the Rio Grande Gorge, west of Taos, New Mexico, is the ideal place to hide. is a new vision of America and the people who built it. NARRATOR: To fight the forces of conquest, Native Americans tap 10,000 years of beliefs and traditions.Īt the intersection of modern scholarship and Native knowledge. (horse neighs) JHANE MYERS: I can't walk these same lands and be here where my people were without trying to acknowledge their existence. They maintain deep ties to their long history in this land. NARRATOR: Today they number 50 million across North and South America. (chanting) We're often referred to in the history books in the past tense, but we are not dead. NARRATOR: Native Americans face a deadly crusade to wipe them out. ♪ ♪ BEAU DICK: They tried their best to annihilate us completely. ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: Native Americans create another world. ![]() TOM PORTER: Thomas Jefferson had no idea of what democracy is till he came here. (exhales) They invent unique systems of science, art, and writing build some of the world's largest cities aligned to the stars and create governments from empires to America's first democracy. They live in hundreds of nations across two continents, linked by social and cultural networks. ♪ ♪ Their ancestral roots stretch back more than 13,000 years. ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) NARRATOR: The New World isn't new at all.īy the time Columbus arrives in 1492, this land is home to 100 million people. ![]()
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