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Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments
Art historian Diana Magaloni illuminates the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to preserve their culture in the Florentine Codex. Using colors and materials that possessed energies from the natural world, they imbued their paintings with a special symbolic life force.
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Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive.
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Celebrate the Native women drawing upon deep traditions to transform our modern world.
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Celebrate the spirit empowering combat, games and athleticism.
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Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration.
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Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed.
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Discover the cosmological secrets behind America’s ancient cities.
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Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies.
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Ancient clues and modern science answer the question: who were America’s First Peoples?