Think the explorers or the voyageurs opened up North America, finding trade and travel routes? Do you imagine regional indigenous peoples once living in idyllic isolation? Think again. With the help of National Geographic Travel Media Editor Norie Quintos, North Americana explores the massive crossroads of pre-contact North America. Northern Ontario’s Manitoulin Island is a fascinating portal to the Great Lakes first peoples, and their ancient axis across which trade, people and ideas flowed from the far north to the Gulf of Mexico to the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast. And all this millennia before Christopher Columbus. 

In this episode, meet the Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes flowing across the Canada US border.  Hear their fascinating stories on their own terms.  Like our host Liz Beatty, you’ll be forever changed.

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 See images, get links to insider travel tips and resources for everything in Episode 2 on our show page.  Also, hear some common misconceptions debunked and more little-known indigenous history from the full interview of Michigan State University Professor John Norder, a Native American of the Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota.

A feel-good musical about 9/11? How does that possibly work? Award-winning Broadway actor De’Lon Grant had no idea, back when Come From Away was just a rumor among musical theatre insiders. Then he joined the cast of now Tony-nominated Come From Away — and — went to Gander, Newfoundland.  With De’Lon’s help, we meet firsthand the people that inspired this global hit, get inside the culture that shaped them, and share travel tips if you want to go too.

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See images. Get links to insider travel tips. Learn about the pirate culture of Newfoundland and Labrador, how to talk like a local, geek out on Central Newfoundland Geology and more at the Episode One Show Page.

Liz Beatty is an award-winning writer, broadcaster & podcaster. She contributes to National Geographic Travel and others. Her podcasts have won top honors across NA.

How well do Americans and Canadians really get each other? North Americana dives into fascinating and surprising connections between our two countries. From Summer of Love refugees in a remote BC town, to American Revolution Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and the real people who inspired a Tony-nominated Broadway play set in Gander, Newfoundland on 9/11 — North Americana is a cross-border conversation.