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"Nature gives us everything for free," says a Yanomami chief - "all that nature asks in return is that we protect it." In Children of the Land, Brazilian Indian leaders discuss their careful and sustainable use of the land. The forest provides indigenous people with food, medicine and supplies, and they know that they have to preserve these for future generations. This is reflected in their sustainable lifestyle; the Ashaninka calendar, for example,...

Explores the mysteries that surround the Nazca Lines, discussing the Nazca, what the lines form, and why they may have been created.

All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabutí, the tortoise, except Vulture, who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabutí into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest - one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s - Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with...

Two men's experiences with a native Indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest. One is an American mercenary hired to remove the Indians but joins forces with them instead. The other is a missionary.

Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.

Examines the history and culture of Native Americans.

Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with...

Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents, the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.

Describes and depicts antiquities from ancient Peru up to the Spanish conquest, including the Nazca ruins, Sacsayhuaman, and Machu Picchu.