Rise

We travel to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.

Genre: Documentary,

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Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 43 minutes

Release: 2017-01-27

Rating: 6

Season 1 - Rise
2017-01-27
The people of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation of North and South Dakota fight to stop a pipeline from being built on their ancestral homeland.
2017-01-27
Over 5,000 Red Power warriors have descended on Standing Rock camp to stand in solidarity and protect tribal burial sites from the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
2017-02-03
The Apache's most sacred land has been handed over to a multinational mining company by the US government, but the San Carlos Apache are fighting to stop the transfer.
2017-02-10
Young Navajo fighters who engage in mixed-martial arts in order to combat alcoholism, racism and violence are spotlighted.
2017-02-17
An urban reservation in Canada aims to fight poverty, crime and violence against girls and women.
2017-02-24
Young Indigenous Hawaiians fight to reclaim their Occupied Kingdom from US control, resisting the construction of a billion-dollar telescope at the summit of their sacred Mauna Kea.
2017-03-03
The Krenak People fight to survive a toxic spill that has contaminated their river.
2017-03-10
Savage Family, a militant Native hip-hop crew, recruits disenfranchised Native youth using rap to reclaim cultural identity and incite resistance by any means.