POV: Up Heartbreak Hill

Thomas runs down Asaayi Road.

Credit: Courtesy of Anthony Thosh Collins (Pima/Osage/Seneca-Cayuga)

Take a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern. Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. POV: Up Heartbreak Hill airs Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7 p.m. on WXXI World (DT21.2/cable 524).

Please note that the broadcast date and time presented in this trailer differ from our local broadcast schedule.