November
2007
KQED Public Television proudly celebrates the diversity
of our community with a special lineup in November.
In addition to KQED Channel 9, KQED also broadcasts
five digital channels, available to viewers with
a digital receiver or Comcast digital cable. KQED's
digital channels are KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast
189), KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190), V-me (9.4,
Comcast 191 & 621), KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) and the high-definition channel KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709). (visit www.kqed.org/dtv
for more information on these digital channels).
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Thursday, November 1
11pm KQED 9 | Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973
This program documents a dramatic protest at Wounded Knee, site of an 1890 massacre.
Repeats: 11/2 10pm (KQED Life-Encore); 11/13 noon (KQED World).
Saturday, November 3
2:30pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Indian Pride - Historical Overview
6pm KQED 9 | Way of the Warrior
This program examines the bravery of Native American veterans who valiantly served in the United States military.
Repeats: 11/6 11am (KQED World); 11/27 9pm (KQED HD).
Sunday, November 4 8am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow - The Gift of the Sacred Dog
This powerful folk story and Native American legend is about a boy who brought the gift of horses to his people and the significance of the horse to the Plains Indian.
6pm KQED 9 | A Blackfeet Encounter
This program explores the deadly confrontation between the Blackfeet people and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Repeats: 11/6 9am & noon (KQED World).
Monday, November 5
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold - Salmon Fishing
Huell learns about Native American fishing techniques on a trip to Eureka.
8pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives
An Austin, Texas, resident of Cherokee descent inherited a mysterious bible from her father with what appears to be Cherokee writing in it.
Repeats: 11/16 3am (KQED HD).
Tuesday, November 6
6pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks - Living Traditions of the Tohono O'odham
Learn how tribal members pass down practices of saguaro fruit harvesting and basket weaving. Repeats: 11/23 8:30pm (KQED HD).
Wednesday, November 7
1pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives
Was this pipe a gift from a famous American Indian warrior?
Repeats: 11/26 8pm and 11/28 11pm (KQED HD).
10pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
The rich and complex story of the astonishing alteration of America's prairies into farmland.
Thursday, November 8
10am KQED 9 | Colonial Williamsburg Fieldtrips - Emissaries of Peace
Follow Cherokee leader Ostenaco and Virginian Henry Timberlake on their 1762 journey from Chota (the capital of the Cherokee nation) to Williamsburg and London in search of a lasting peace.
8:30pm KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards From Buster - Buster's Buffalo Round-Up
(Rapid City, S.D.)
A descendent of a Lakota soldier takes Buster behind the scenes at the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Saturday, November 10
2:30pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Indian Pride - Indian Treaties and Sovereignty
6pm KQED 9 | P.O.V. Standing Silent Nation
This program recounts the legal struggles of a Lakota family who planted hemp after other crops had failed.
Repeats: 11/11 10pm (KQED World).
Sunday, November 11
6pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State our Stories - Pikyav
This poetic film chronicles the Northern California Karuk tribe's efforts to regain their cultural identity and restore their rights to manage the ecologically wondrous landscape along the Klamath River.
Repeats: 11/15 11pm & 11/16 3am (KQED 9); 11/16 10pm (KQED Life-Encore).
Monday, November 12
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold - California's State Parks
This episode visits the Providence Mountain State Recreation Area, located in
the eastern Mojave Desert and the Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park in
the Sierra Nevada.
6pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks - Medieval Drought in the Southwest
Host David Yetman hikes through the White Mountains of California and Sequoia National Park to observe how scientists use tree rings to gather evidence of climate conditions from thousands of years ago.
Repeats: 11/24 1pm (KQED HD).
8pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives
A Jamestown, N.Y. resident was startled to discover a pair of sports tickets, dated 1927, for a basketball game featuring legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe.
Repeats: 11/28 3am (KQED HD)
Tuesday, November 13
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold - Important Places
Huell travels to two significant but little-known places: Camp Pendelton near San Diego and the Sherman Institute High School, an off-reservation boarding house for Native Americans.
11pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens - Miss Navajo
This program follows contestants in their quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown, featuring stories of winners.
Repeats: 11/14 10pm (KQED Life-Encore); 11/16 4am (KQED 9); 11/16 noon (KQED World).
Wednesday, November 14
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Golden Parks - Ahjumawi
This episode explores the amazing Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park and the Native Americans who inhabit the area.
9pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Lonely Island, Hidden Alcatraz
The island of Alcatraz boasts a long and eclectic history, and this KQED production explores it all in a walking tour of the island.
Repeats: 11/18 9pm (KQED World); 11/29 at 9pm (KQED HD).
Thursday, November 15
11pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State Our Stories - Pikyav
See KQED 9 Sunday, November 11, 6pm.
Repeats: 11/16 3am (KQED 9); 11/16 10pm (KQED Life-Encore).
Friday, November 16
3am KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State Our Stories - Pikyav
See KQED 9 Sunday, November 11, 6pm.
Repeats at 10pm (KQED Life-Encore).
4am KQED 9 | Independent Lens - Miss Navajo
See KQED 9 Tuesday, November 13, 11pm.
Repeats at noon (KQED World).
Saturday, November 17
2:30pm KQED World | Indian Pride - Spirituality
Sunday, November 18
11:30am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Spark - Playwright Carlos Baron and Other Stories
Head to Chile with playwright Carlos Baron, along with his cast of actors, dancers and musicians from Poeta Pan. Visit Yosemite, where Julia Parker is helping to revive the art form of basket weaving. Get a deeper look into the haunting drawings of Josephine Taylor.
Repeats: 11/21 7:30pm (KQED 9 & KQED HD).
5pm KQED Life-Encore | Maria Tallchief
Maria's own voice and archival clips tell the story of how she became America's first major ballerina.
7pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall - Taste of
America
Christopher O'Riley presents a rumba for the saxophone played by 17-year-old Kevin Olusula.
8:30pm KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards From Buster - Hoops and Drums (Lander, Wyo.)
On the Wind River Reservation, Buster meets kids from the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes, and they teach him native American traditions, including drumming and pow-wow dancing.
10:15pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | song on the water: return of the great canoes
Aboriginal communities of western Washington and the coastal and inland waterways of British Columbia take annual sea voyages in ancient dugout canoes carved from cedar.
11:15pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | sleeping monsters, sacred fires
Vulcanologists explore these geological marvels and consider when the next one will awaken.
Repeats: 11/29 7:30pm (KQED HD).
Monday, November 19
8pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives
A mysterious letter sparks an examination into the history of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement.
Repeats: 11/23 8pm 11pm (KQED HD).
9pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
Native American activists in four communities are dedicated to protecting their lands from environmental hazards and preserving their peoples' sovereignty.
Tuesday, November 20
1pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives
A New Mexico woman believes she may have an authentic photograph of the
legendary Apache warrior Geronimo.
9pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks - Monumental Dunes
Visit groups of sand dunes in the United States and explore their structure,
patterns and wildlife.
9:30pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks - Shadows of the Ancients
See how observational astronomy has deep roots in the Puebloan world.
Repeats: 11/21 3pm; 11/22 1am & 5am (KQED HD).
11pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens - The Creek Runs Red
A town facing serious health risks and age-old racial tensions between
Indian and white society.
Repeats: 11/21 10pm (KQED Life-Encore).
Wednesday, November 21
7:30pm KQED 9 & KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark - Playwright Carlos
Baron and Other Stories
See KQED Life-Encore Sunday, November 18, 11:30am.
Thursday, November 22
9pm KQED HD (9.1, Comcast 709) | California and the American Dream -
California's "Lost" Tribes
This program explores tribal sovereignty, the evolution of tribal gaming
and its effects on native peoples.
Repeats: 11/26 11pm (KQED HD).
10pm KQED 9 & HD | Nova - Pocahontas Revealed
On the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Virginia archaeologists reveal the
truth behind the myth.
Repeats: 11/23 noon (KQED Life-Encore); 11/24 11pm (KQED World).
11pm KQED 9 | Cowboys, Indians and Lawyers
This program examines Anglo-Indian relations through a rural community's
battle over money, power and water.
Repeats: 11/23 2am, 1pm & 10pm (KQED Life-Encore).
Saturday, November 24
2:30pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Indian Pride - Tribal Relations with the U.S.A.
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