KCET Announces Indigenous Peoples Series GROWING NATIVE

KCET has just announced the Indigenous Peoples series GROWING NATIVE which will premiere on November 13th at 11 pm PT on KCET.

GROWING NATIVE is a four-part series in which hosts Chris Eyre, Stacey Thunder and Moses Brings Plenty talk with local guides to give viewers a glimpse of modern and traditional reservation life to learn how Native people pass on their experiences and wisdom. While highlighting these shared experiences, the series will also examine how Native communities are adapting to the impacts of climate change by working toward sustainable food sovereignty and the use of renewable energy sources.

GROWING NATIVE premieres on Tues., Nov. 13 at 11 p.m. PT on KCET in Southern California with streaming on [ http://www.kcet.org/growingnative ]kcet.org/growingnative

GROWING NATIVE "Northwest: Coast Salish" - Tues., Nov. 13 at 11 p.m. PT

Venture to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of ongoing traditions and perseverance of its original inhabitants. For the tribes of this region, water is life. The rivers that crisscross this land were the highways for trade and the fresh water

grocery stores for thousands of years. Today, tribes celebrate their cultures by participating in a yearly canoe journey, an opportunity for people to gather and travel to all the places their ancestors once inhabited. From totem poles to language

preservation to traditional crafts, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the wilds of the North.

GROWING NATIVE "Alaska: People of the North" - Tues., Nov. 20 at 11 p.m. PT

All across Alaska, Native cultures have depended on the abundant natural resources found there to support their families, cultures and ways of life. Now, however, those resources are growing scarce and the people who have relied on them for centuries

have to find new ways to adapt. GROWING NATIVE visits some of the many communities engaged in this familiar struggle - the struggle to maintain their traditions and ways of life. Host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) meets Alaska Natives who thrive and

survive in this complex environment.

GROWING NATIVE "Great Lakes: Turtle Island" - Tues., Nov. 27 at 11 p.m. PT

Over the centuries, the Great Lakes have been home to hundreds of tribes as well as a source of fresh water, food and health. Indigenous creation stories describe how the world came into being on the back of a turtle shell. Today they know the earth as

Turtle Island. Host Stacey Thunder (Red Lake and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) guides this journey by engaging tribal voices while touring the region with those who still devote their lives to caring for the land.

GROWING NATIVE "Oklahoma: Red People" - Tues., Dec. 4 at 11 p.m. PT

Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in NORTH AMERICA will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere will you find a more tragic history. Host Moses Brings Plenty (Oglala Lakota) guides this episode on a

journey to Oklahoma's past and present. What he discovers among the many faces of Oklahoma culture is the determination, values and respect that tribes have brought to this land, once called Indian Territory.

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