Rise

Rise

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast:Sarain FoxIphy MurphyGitz Crazyboy


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Sacred Water: Standing Rock Part I

Fri, Jan 27, 2017

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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Red Power: Standing Rock Part II

Fri, Jan 27, 2017

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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Apache Stronghold

Fri, Feb 3, 2017

Apache 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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Navajo Warriors

Fri, Feb 10, 2017

MMA is exploding in "Indian Country" as young Navajo fighters enter the cage, reviving old warrior traditions to battle the alcoholism, racism, and violence facing Native youth.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Urban Rez

Fri, Feb 17, 2017

Canada's largest Urban Rez takes back the streets, battling the intergenerational effect of residential schools, poverty, high crime and violence directed at girls and women.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Hawaiian Sovereignty

Fri, Feb 24, 2017

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.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Poisoned River

Fri, Mar 3, 2017

Brazil's Krenak People struggle to survive in the wake of a massive toxic spill that has contaminated the their drinking water, hunting grounds and culture.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Warriors Rising

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Savage Family, a militant Native hip-hop crew, recruits disenfranchised Native youth using rap to reclaim cultural identity and incite resistance by any means.