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In The Americas with David Yetman
| Website: | http://www.intheamericas.com/ |
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| Next Airing: | Sun, Jun 22nd, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV |
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IN THE AMERICAS WITH DAVID YETMAN takes a fresh look at the lands that make up much of the Western Hemisphere. The 10-part series showcases the landscapes, peoples and history of the Americas - from the stories of a small village of Japanese immigrants in the Amazon to descendants of poor Italians in Chile, from Mayan temples in Guatemala to ancient fortresses in Mexico, and from the frigid, glacier-carved barrens of northern Canada to the timeless villages of the altiplano in Peru. By raft, boat, ferry, horse and motorcycle, host David Yetman journeys to parts of Cuba mostly unknown to the outside world, the wild mountains of western Argentina, festivals in Columbia and the often ignored Great Lakes of the United States. Along the way, he meets people from all walks of life - natives and immigrants, islanders and mainlanders, pastoralists and city-dwellers - and hears their stories. David Yetman, longtime host of The Desert Speaks (also distributed through APT Exchange) works as a research social scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona. Yetman is also a nationally known author of numerous books and articles and an accomplished photographer.
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The Depths of the Canyon and Its Offspring
Phantom Ranch, midway through the Grand Canyon and accessible only by trail, is the sole permanent settlement within the canyon. From there west, the canyon narrows and darkens as the Colorado River relentlessly carves its way through rock that is the oldest in the Southwest. From the north and south sides, canyons so narrow they are known as "slots" reach the churning river. Finally, the canyon the world's greatest geological wonder ends and the tamed river meets the placid waters beyond. Water experts give their take on the river and what it and its waters mean.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 22nd, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
The Lower Colorado River: Dwindling Lifeblood of the Southwest
Forty million people rely on water released from Lake Mead, on the Colorado River not far from Las Vegas. That booming city, renowned for vice, is also a world leader in water conservation. Far downstream huge canals de-water the river, as farmers look to technology to maintain their productivity, Californians deliver water to their vast population and farmland, and Mexico receives its entitlement. The once-great river and vast wetlands face a dried-out channel.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 29th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Wilderness of Ice, Salmon, and Human History
It's our largest national park larger than New England and one-third of it is ice. One glacier is 137 miles long. The park contains active volcanoes. Its rivers of icemelt are home to salmon runs that have supported native peoples for thousands of years. Yet the glaciers are melting, and forests are drying. The park has become an enormously important natural laboratory.
Next Airing: Sun, Jul 6th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Re-Claiming The Gulf In Baja California
Only a few decades ago, Baja California was mostly unknown to the outside world, sparsely populated, and difficult to visit. And most of it is very dry desert. But crowds and developers have discovered the southern part of the peninsula and have arrived in droves, threatening the very features that make the Peninsula such an unusual place. Meanwhile, overharvesting in the Gulf of California has caused fish stocks to plummet and threatened the entire ecosystem. Now, Mexicans and international experts are fighting back.
Next Airing: Sun, Jul 13th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Mexican Carnival
Carnival or Mardi Gras is a time of parades and exuberant partying just before the forty days of Lent, when many Christians must adopt of more austere way of life. Latin America features hundreds of variations on the festivities. Mexico has two sensational parades like no others, in towns that are otherwise obscure--Huejotzingo in the state of Puebla and Tlacayapan in the state of Morelos. These two parties are as different as any two celebrations can be.
Next Airing: Sun, Jul 20th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
The Potters of Northwest Mexico-Past and Present
Potters in northwest Mexico have been producing fine ceramics for more than a thousand years. Excavations at Paquime, Chihuahua reveal a culture renowned for its designs-and exports-500 years before Europeans arrived. Sixty years ago, villagers not far away discovered that they, too could produce fine ceramics. Today their products are world-famous.
Next Airing: Sun, Jul 27th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Brazil's Butantan Institute: Where Venomous Critters Find a Welcome
The abundance of reptiles, especially snakes, in the Amazonian jungle is hardly surprising. Native cultures, far from fearing snakes, view them as spiritually significant elements of nature. From the gigantic anaconda to tiny tree vipers, snakes are part of life-and religion--in Brazil's Amazon.
Next Airing: Sun, Aug 3rd, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Brazil's Butantan Institute - Where Venomous Critters Find a Welcome
Brazil is larger than the contiguous United States, and it is mostly tropical. It is not surprising that it is home to a host of venomous critters, mostly scorpions, spiders, and snakes. Each year many tens of thousands of Brazilians are stung or bitten and require treatment. Many of them and many thousands of victims in other countries as well, owe their lives to antivenin produced by the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo. It's home to hundreds of thousands of venomous creatures, all contributing to the protection of human lives.
Next Airing: Sun, Aug 10th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
Arizona's Volcanic Heritage
Arizona is not known for its active volcanoes, but its landscape is dominated by the products of millions of years of volcanic explosions. And the plumbing that funnels molten lava to the surface is still intact and waiting for the opportunity to erupt. The last explosion occurred around the time Normans were invading England. It could recur at any time. More ancient activity tore up the landscape and left behind a heritage of destruction and creation.
Next Airing: Sun, Aug 17th, 2025 at 12:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/18/2021 to 10/17/2025 -
African and Indigenous Heritage In Oaxaca's Coast
On the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, runaway slaves built their own communities and joined other indigenous groups, forging a culture that persists into the present.
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Brasillia and Chapada Dos Veadeiros
Brazil’s capital city, far removed from the Amazon, sits on a plateau that is also home to home rugged cliffs, streams, and waterfalls, indigenous communities, homesteads of pioneering families, and habitats found in these mountains and nowhere else.
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Imperiled Refuges: Islets in the Sea of Cortes
Islands and waters of Mexico’s northern Gulf of California are refuges for sea creatures, still reliant on decreasing fish stocks and beset with the uncertainties of climate change.
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Kraho: Enduring People of Brazil's Plateau
The Krahó people of Brazil’s plateau country survive on their traditional lands where they maintain their culture and their ancient ways in the nation’s largest Indian reservation.
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Lee's Ferry and into the depths of the Grand Canyon
Boating through the Grand Canyon with a group of water experts provides a setting for reflection on the Colorado River its power, its accomplishments, and its vulnerabilities. We put in at Lee's Ferry and immediately are introduced to rapids and the evolution of the world's greatest geological spectacle.
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Puerto Rico: The Colony and Its Emergence
Though Puerto Rico is part of the United States, its colonial history, its distinct culture, and its tropical Caribbean setting make it decidedly different from the upper states.
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The Mississippi River Program
The Mississippi is the largest river in North America and the most destructive of human works, presenting an epic challenge for the Army Corps of Engineers around New Orleans.
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Turquoise in the Southwest
For millennia, turquoise has been the gemstone of choice for jewelers of the Southwest, a tradition that continues, even as the sources dwindle.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/31/2025 to 3/30/2029