as we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, We are proud to bring you a preview of a new show being produced by Vegas PBS focused on southern Nevada's Latino communities.

The host of that show, Maria Silva, joins us now from our Nevada Week studios with more on Bienvenidos a Las Vegas.

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Bienvenidos a Las Vegas.

Welcome to Las Vegas.

Is this so near and dear to my heart for so many reasons?

Mi familia.

The Silver family has been in Las Vegas since 1981.

In the absence of Las Vegas, I'll introduce you to families who have lived here for many, many generations.

They are entrepreneurs, educators, entertainers and historians with extraordinary stories to tell.

Mr. Tom Rodriguez is one of the most trusted historians.

When it comes to Latinos and Hispanics in Nevada and has even written several books, making sure the history of 150 Latinos living in Southern Nevada was recorded.

The next generation of historians at UNLV.

I met up with fellow rebel Lawrence BANUELOS Benitez to talk about UNLV's student led oral history project.

Latinxs Voices of Southern Nevada So top of my game.

But when I got to the Hall of Fame with Julio Cesar Chavez, Mike Tyson towards a stolen Casa Zoo and national Barry Sting, I said to myself, I'm a top of my game.

I want to go out while still on top.

I don't want to be pushed up.

from UNLV.

I headed to a neighborhood which holds a special place in my heart.

And then he'll leave Las Vegas.

at the East Las Vegas Community Center.

I met up with Councilwoman Olivia Diaz, the first Latina elected to the Las Vegas City Council.

Councilwoman Diaz grew up in East Las Vegas and shares what makes this neighborhood also known as the Rafael Rivera neighborhood so special.

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From East Las Vegas to the arts district in downtown Las Vegas.

That's where I met up with Las Vegas native Brian BARCO Alvarez, an anthropologist and talented artist himself.

We talk all things art and culture.

We are here for a very specific reason, this beautiful metal artwork back here, this sculpture.

This is my pride and joy in downtown Las Vegas.

It's the second most important work of art ever commissioned in Las Vegas history.

The first one is the flashlight at You A.V.

These are site specific works of art.

Luis Frederico actually created this.

He's a local artist originally from Mexico.

His mother's very local.

the beautiful thing about the sculpture is it's representative of the PIU baskets.

The pirates were renowned, are renowned for their amazing baskets that they created.

And it also represents it's made of aluminum and it also represents the railroad because it was just a few feet away.

So you've got this juxtaposition of of aluminum and steel and this the delicate ness of the of the basket.

So we have great symmetry by Luis, two.

Also in downtown Las Vegas, we paid a visit to the Martinez family three generations now run what is considered the oldest Mexican restaurant in the city of Las Vegas.

Dona maria families.

videos that Las Vegas is partially funded by a grant from w e t and will air in conjunction with American E Storia, a three part docu series executive produced and hosted by the multitalented and John Leguizamo.

Take a look.

This is my chance to dig deep on the real history of Latinos.

We're going to fill in the parts of our history that were lost all the way from the ancient, all mixed Latinos who were here long before the United States existed to the Latinos who helped build this great nation.

With a strike and with a boycott.

We were trying to get farmworkers basically land rights.

That's a lot of ground to cover.

But don't worry, because I got you.

Representation matters American Historia and bienvenidos to Las Vegas will both air in early 2024.