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Rise : Season 1
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Air date: 27 Jan '17 - 8 episodesWe travel to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.
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List of Episodes (8)
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Rise (2017)
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1. Sacred Water: Standing Rock Part I
27 Jan '17The people of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation of North and South Dakota fight to stop a pipeline from being built on their ancestral homeland.
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2. Red Power: Standing Rock Part II
27 Jan '17Over 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.
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3. Apache Stronghold
03 Feb '17The 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.
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4. MMA Warriors
10 Feb '17Young Navajo fighters who engage in mixed-martial arts in order to combat alcoholism, racism and violence are spotlighted.
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5. The Urban Rez
17 Feb '17An urban reservation in Canada aims to fight poverty, crime and violence against girls and women.
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6. Hawaiian Sovereignty
24 Feb '17Young 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.
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7. Poisoned River
03 Mar '17The Krenak People fight to survive a toxic spill that has contaminated their river.
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8. Warriors Rising
10 Mar '17Savage Family, a militant Native hip-hop crew, recruits disenfranchised Native youth using rap to reclaim cultural identity and incite resistance by any means.
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