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Growing Native

Great Lakes (Turtle Island)

Season 1 Episode 103 | 56m 46s

Over the Centuries, the Great Lakes have been home to hundreds of tribes and a source of fresh water, food and health. Indigenous creation stories describe the world came into being on a back of a turtle shell, and today they know the earth as Turtle Island. Growing Native host Stacey Thunder (Red Lake and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) guides this journey.

Aired: 11/07/18
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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Venture to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of its original inhabitants.
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