:05:01
into the virgin continents
beyond.
:05:06
Their descendants will become
Apache and Sioux, Aztec and Maya
:05:10
lnca and Amazonian.
:05:13
yet some remain in Alaska.
:05:17
For them, this is a world of
mysterious forces and spirits.
:05:47
To science,
the Aurora Borealis is created
:05:50
by streams of charged particles
from the sun
:05:53
colliding with the atmosphere.
:05:56
To some Native Americans,
the Northern Lights
:05:59
were children not yet born
at play in the heavens.
:06:16
Here at the far edges
of existence
:06:19
the wildness
of the ancient earth
:06:21
never vanished.
:06:22
Even today,
the solitude of the past
:06:25
is broken only occasionally
by the sound of the present.
:06:59
In Alaska,
the last great lce Age survives.