Maize was first developed in the Americas from a wild plant known as teosinte. Indigenous people created significant changes to their environment through resource harvesting, farming, urban development, irrigation, controlled burning and deforestation. Episode Guide Įxplores indigenous origin stories as well as discoveries by archaeologists, anthropologists, geneticists and linguists on how and when Indigenous people first arrived in the Western Hemisphere. Presented from an Indigenous perspective, the series follows a timeline from 20,000 years ago to 1491. Specific examples are shown from eight geographic regions covering the entirety of North and South America. Through dramatic re-enactment, narrator voice-overs and interviews with leading Indigenous scholars, the series illustrates that before the arrival of Columbus in the Americas the Western Hemisphere was heavily populated with Indigenous societies which were highly advanced in agriculture, astronomy, architecture, governance, medicine, technology, science, trade and art. Filming took place in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru and its creation involved over 400 Indigenous cast and crew members. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and first aired in Canada on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in 2017. It was co-produced in Canada by Aarrow Productions (Victoria, BC) and Animiki See Digital Production Inc. "1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus" is an eight-episode docu-drama television mini-series based on The New York Times best-selling book " 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( September 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill ( documentation).
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