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Going Native Going Artsy
Season 1 , Episode 7Drew enters the fascinating world of contemporary Indigenous art. A life-sized whale made out of plastic lawn furniture? Inuit wall murals in Canada’s biggest city? Movie posters with an indigenous spin? West Coast art combined with graffiti? -
Going Native Going Beyond
Season 1 , Episode 13Drew gazes up at the stars above and explores the petroglyphs and secret ruins all around us. He reveals how Indigenous Peoples from New Mexico to the Canadian wilderness have understood astronomy for centuries. (Final) -
Going Native Going Architecture
Season 1 , Episode 2After exploring Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park and its 800-year-old Pueblo cave dwellings, Drew then reveals how cutting-edge Indigenous architects are drawing lessons, and designs, from their own tribal past. -
Going Native Going Horse
Season 1 , Episode 1Drew Hayden Taylor seeks to learn Indigenous stories of the horse by meeting a daredevil family of “Indian Relay” racers, encountering a Navajo horse whisperer, and by exploring unique wild horse sanctuary in the foothills of the Rockies. -
Going Native Going Fashionable
Season 1 , Episode 6Drew Hayden Taylor brushes up his fashion skills as he jumps into the world of Indigenous fashion with a series of the hottest young designers, as well as a one-of-a-kind turquoise jeweller in Sante Fe, New Mexico. -
Going Native Going Music
Season 1 , Episode 5Since the dawn of time the buckskin drum has been the heartbeat of Indigenous music. Drew creates some “beats” with an Indigenous hip hop DJ, meets a genre-bending Métis jazz star, a symphony percussionist, and a legendary First Nations rocker and bluesman. -
Going Native Going Gourmet
Season 1 , Episode 4Bannock: Indigenous treat, colonialism, or both? From traditional farming to award-winning Indigenous wineries and food trucks, Drew is dining all-Indigenous. -
Going Native Going Pop Culture
Season 1 , Episode 3Drew uncovers how First Nations artists are pushing the boundaries of pop culture when he meets up with professional zombies, axe throwing and legend-morphing film directors, and Indigenous video games designers. -
Going Native Going Sacred
Season 1 , Episode 9From an incredible “Spotted Lake” in British Columbia to a sacred waterfall in Washington State, Drew explores the people, ideas, and hallowed spaces linked to Indigenous spirituality. -
Going Native Going Bush
Season 1 , Episode 10Drew reveals an Indigenous survivalist-past when he visits the Canadian Rockies. He learns how to live with no tools or shelter and how to throw the deadly Central American weapon called the “atlatl” spear. He also visits an ancient tribe in Washington state. -
Going Native Going Storytelling
Season 1 , Episode 11From the stage to the written page to the traditional campfire, Drew explores the role Indigenous storytelling plays in myth-making, theatre, and in keeping Indigenous culture alive and well. -
Going Native Going Athletic
Season 1 , Episode 12Drew goes on a quest to learn about how Indigenous Peoples are changing the face of sport. He explores a unique northern trapper festival, gets beaten soundly in an ancient Cree martial art and then hits the pavement with an Apache skateboard team in Arizona. -
Going Native Going Stick Sport
Season 2 , Episode 11Drew heads to the heart of hockey in Nova Scotia, and then to the Six Nations playing fields as he explores how indigenous peoples quite literally invented both of Canada’s National Sports: Hockey and Lacrosse. -
Going Native Going Bushcraft
Season 2 , Episode 10Drew visits an Anishinaabe bush-man seeking to “re-teach” his people the traditional ways of living off the land, visits Metis bush-meat gourmet in Manitoba, and goes late-night spear-fishing for salmon on a Cape Breton river. -
Going Native Going Legend
Season 2 , Episode 7Drew visits the dinosaur-bone filled Hoodoos of Alberta, meets a Sleeping Giant in Thunder Bay, heads to the haunted Manitou Islands, then witnesses huge “Thunderbird Eggs” on Lake Huron, as he uncovers four incredible native legends. -
Going Native Going Two Spirit
Season 2 , Episode 6Drew reveals how, for centuries, gender and sexuality has been viewed very differently by native people by taking part in a drag show, meets two talented queer street performers, and visits an aspiring political force for trans-rights. -
Going Native Going Fire & Water
Season 2 , Episode 5Drew hits the ocean to witness a state-of the art ship- safety program for native youths, then sees how indigenous “controlled burns” can stop forest fires, before visiting Niagara Falls to reveal its vital link to indigenous folks. -
Going Native Going Monumental
Season 2 , Episode 4Drew travels to Canada’s largest urban woodlot to meet “Sawmill Sid”, a carver transforming the urban landscape, then he visits an Inuit artist who is bringing the North south, lastly he meets a statue-maker who casts his own bronze. -
Going Native Going Pop Art
Season 2 , Episode 8Drew meets an indigenous “Chocolate Mould” artist, witnesses 1400 Buffalo Heads on Toronto’s lakeshore (one of the most incredible street art installations ever), and sees how losing one’s native roots can inspire beautiful pop-art. -
Going Native Going Fast
Season 2 , Episode 9Drew hits the highway with a unique Six Nations Motorcycle Club, circles the car racing dirt track with Billy Cook “The Mohawk Express”, and waxes up his surfboard with a team of Nova Scotia indigenous kids who are taking to the waves. -
Going Native Going Body Art
Season 2 , Episode 12Drew heads to a Mohawk First Nation on Lake Ontario that hosts one of the largest Tattoo Gatherings in Canada. There he meets dozens of native artists making their cultural marks. Then he goes on traditional indigenous hairstyle journey. -
Going Native Going Canoeing
Season 2 , Episode 1Drew paddles into deep waters as he explores how wild-rice is harvested by canoe, how birchbark canoes are constructed the old-fashioned way, and why this vessel was a sacred and necessary invention of indigenous peoples. -
Going Native Going Behind The Lens
Season 2 , Episode 3Drew takes a snapshot of how indigenous peoples are uniquely framing the world with their cameras by meeting two aspiring filmmakers, a stunningly talented Inuit photographer, and goes all-in as “the actor” in an urban crime comedy. -
Going Native Going Warrior
Season 2 , Episode 2Drew meets with two Hollywood indigenous stuntmen in Alberta, hits the pro wrestling ring with some very wild characters, and straps on the gloves and hits the mat with a native Muay Thai champ. -
Going Native Going Green
Season 2 , Episode 13Drew travels to Alberta’s grasslands to witness a unique buffalo herd restoration experiment; visits indigenously-inspired “harmony with nature” architecture; and sees an incredible far-north First Nation vegetable and fruit greenhouse. -
Going Native Going Business
Season 1 , Episode 8Drew visits Canada's newest urban reserve, meets a Metis sash maker drawing inspiration from Indigenous South Americans, and witnesses how Indigenous venture capital is opening doors.