The BEST episodes of Rise season 1

#1 - Red Power: Standing Rock Part II

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2017

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.

#2 - The Urban Rez

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2017

An urban reservation in Canada aims to fight poverty, crime and violence against girls and women.

#3 - Sacred Water: Standing Rock Part I

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2017

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.

#4 - Apache Stronghold

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/2017

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.

#5 - Warriors Rising

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/2017

#6 - MMA Warriors

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2017

Young Navajo fighters who engage in mixed-martial arts in order to combat alcoholism, racism and violence are spotlighted.

#7 - Hawaiian Sovereignty

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2017

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.

#8 - Poisoned River

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2017