Title: PBS series on first peoples of the world
Course: REL 201 RTZ > Section: Week 2 - Indigenous Relgions

PBS has a 5 episode series that looks at First Peoples of the World.  Below is a list of the 5 PBS episodes that you can watch online:

Recommended viewing:

1. First Peoples: Asia. Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.
2. First Peoples: Australia. Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.

Optional viewing:

1. First Peoples:   Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.
2. First Peoples: Americas. Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.
3. First Peoples: Africa. Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.

As you view the series keep the following questions in mind:

1. Who are the first peoples?

2. Where did the first peoples originate?

3. How these first peoples related or not related?

4. Do the early first peoples have any form of religion?

5. What were the early religious beliefs, if any, of the first peoples?

6.  What is unique to these beliefs for each group?

7. What is similar between the beliefs of each group?

8. What do you see as similar in these early peoples beliefs that are similar or different from modern beliefs?