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Season 1

  • S01E01 The 2018 Native Language Quiz Bowl

    • November 18, 2018
    • PBS

    We traveled with the Yellow Medicine East Schools Native American students to Grand Casino MN in Hinckley where they competed in a statewide language competition. All three YME teams placed in the top three! Congratulations!

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Devil's Instrument

    • February 13, 2020
    • PBS

    The Devil’s Instrument is a new documentary by Pioneer PBS, captured during a 10-day trip to Norway in August 2019. The film explores the culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle and interviews woodworkers who make the fiddle, the musicians who play it and the dancers who spin to it against the backdrop of the gorgeous Norwegian landscape.

  • S02E02 The Horse Relative

    • May 17, 2020
    • PBS

    Artists James Star Comes Out and Keith Braveheart of the Oglala Lakota tribe of South Dakota and Dakota Wicohan collaborated with Pioneer PBS to create this documentary. Follow the difficult path Native people and their horse relatives traversed, as foreigners settled the surrounding lands and learn how the Dakota people of Minnesota are working to keep their cultural identity thriving.

  • S02E03 Sympathetic Strings

    • May 28, 2020
    • PBS

    In Sympathetic Strings, a film by Pioneer PBS, meet fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices from throughout Minnesota who form a passionate, close-knit community of folk tradition practice surrounding the Hardanger fiddle.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Care Under Fire

    • May 18, 2021
    • PBS

    In Strusinski’s riveting book, Care Under Fire, Strusinski thrusts the reader squarely into moments of terror during firefights, the exhaustion of endless patrols, the anguish of losing buddies despite best efforts to save them, and the intimate bonds created during times of desperate need. This is a book about war, yes, but even more about how one man was transformed by his “sacred duty”

Season 4

  • S04E01 SAKSANICA

    • May 11, 2022
    • PBS

    Award-winning filmmaker Leya Hale traces the traditions underlying the dress-making culture of Lakota and Dakota communities in this new Pioneer PBS documentary. Tanner Peterson, a member of the Upper Sioux Community, is the videographer and production assistant.