The real history of America started thousands of years before 1492. From the Pacific Northwest to the Great Plains, from the Southwest deserts to the Eastern woodlands. These are the stories of the tribes who built America first.
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For centuries, the Pacific was European explorers' impossible puzzle. 63 million square miles where sailors found nothing but endless water. The Polynesians had already solved it, using stars and swells to discover every island in paradise. Their greatest find was Hawaii, forged in fire by the goddess Pele. Then Captain Cook showed up at exactly the wrong time.
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11 Jun 2025
Ep.3- Mountains, Sweat, and Tears
1,500 miles of hell. Battles, blizzards, and betrayals. The Nez Perce fought everything - armies, starvation, and terrain that killed - in their desperate race for freedom.
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11 Jun 2025
Ep.2- White Bird Canyon
Forced into treaty after cruel treaty, the Nez Perce faced an impossible choice: abandon everything their ancestors died for, or risk everything to defend it.
11 Jun 2025
Ep.1 - The Place of the Butterflies
Frozen solid and dying in the wilderness, Lewis and Clark's 1805 expedition stumbled upon the Nez Perce, the tribe that would save their lives. What neither side could foresee was how this fateful encounter would transform America's most loyal Native ally into a hunted people...
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