A sixteen-year-old Aztec boy named Delfino tries to cross the border into Texas to help his frail, pregnant sister get medical care, but deadly challenges arise in the form of violence and starvation in a border slave camp.
Location footage, 3-D computer graphics, and re-creations tell the story of the Moche, the Nazca, and the Paracas, forebears of the great Incan Empire of South America.
A Native American high school student is challenged to spend three months alone in the Beartooth Wilderness Area of Montana, living as his ancestors had lived.
Discusses the history, geography, and culture of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Topics include everyday life, society, beliefs, colonialism, Amerindians today, and the future.
In the Arizona Territory in 1868, thirteen-year-old Charlotte, after escaping from a stagecoach being attacked by Indians, finds shelter and is befriended by an elderly Pima Indian woman who helps her gain a new sense of herself and her abilities to survive in a new land.
Fifteen-year-old Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager living on a New Mexico reservation, struggles with conflicting forces as she tries to reconcile traditional Navajo ways with her desires for progress.
Discusses the wars of expansion of white settlements into the homelands of various Indian tribes and the destruction of great nations of people. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to the war.
