This Week On MNN

November is Native American Heritage Month. Join us to learn about some Native American tribes, their culture, traditions and history.   

Pathways to the Dream Lodge Cafe, hosted by Candece Tarpley, brings Native American culture to MNN viewers. This week Candece talks about native languages from the western hemisphere. Candece is joined by Two Feathers Neal, co-founder of the Cherokee Language and Cultural Circle,1996-2010 and Miryam Yataco, a Peruvian born language rights advocate and expert in intercultural bilingual education. 

Strata: Portraits of Humanity is a monthly half-hour news magazine style television show that delivers in-depth coverage of a wide variety of archaeological and cultural heritage topics. On this edition host Rick Pettigrew introduces Dr. Michele Koons, Curator of Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Join Dr. Koons as she digs into the museum’s collection drawers to tell us about some gorgeous shell bracelets from the prehistoric Hohokam culture in the American Southwest.  

A Better World, is a program that speaks about issues of our time and interviews guests who are making a better world for all. On this episode host Mitchel Rabin invites filmmaker Georgina Lightning to discuss her 2008 film Older Than America, a film that explores the lasting impact of the cultural genocide and loss of identity that occured at Native American boarding schools across the United States.

Latin Icons Past and Present host Gilda Miros was invited to attend a conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The Department of Africana studies and the Department of Anthropology presented the Native American and African American Connection: Multicultural Cooperation in Historical and in Current Times. Join anthropologist Evan T. Pritchard for this fascinating lecture. 

Catch these programs beginning Sunday, November 14 at 1PM and Wednesday November 17, at 7PM on MNN 5 (Spectrum 1993).