Warrior Up! - Season 1

First aired: 5/11/2024 13 episodes

Episodes

1. Talon Pascal: Time Traveler

Aired: 5/11/2024

Seventeen-year-old Talon Pascal has spent years learning ancient, nearly lost Indigenous skills. From hunting on horseback to building pit houses, flintknapping and constructing bows and arrows, Talon aims to live off the land just as his ancestors did.

2. Nevaeh Pine: The Voice of Disruption

Aired: 5/18/2024

Grade ten student Nevaeh Pine, an Ojibwe teen, speaks out on Indigenous issues like MMIWG2S. With host Anna Lambe, she organizes her school's first Red Dress Day, overcoming adversity to create a powerful event.

3. Trechelle Bunn: Movement is Medicine

Aired: 5/25/2024

Trechelle Bunn, a Dakota hockey player at the University of Manitoba, launches Canada's first Reconciliation Run from Birtle to Birdtail, Manitoba to heal her community and honor her family's history at Birtle Residential School.

4. Cole Clark and Dylan Hope: Northern Stars

Aired: 6/1/2024

Cole Clark, 22, a Tlicho Dene mentor in Yellowknife, uplifts at-risk youth through sports. He introduces host Joel Oulette to Dylan Hope, 20, a rapper from Ice Cold Collective, performing at Yellowknife's Folk on the Rocks festival.

5. Isaac Garcia: It's All Relative

Aired: 6/8/2024

Isaac Garcia, 16, a Dakota/Ojibwe advocate in St. Paul, Minnesota, organizes 'Blessing Bags' for homeless individuals, working part-time at Indigenous Roots Cafe and aspiring to become mayor to support the city's homeless.

6. Hailey Rose: Youth Leader

Aired: 6/15/2024

Hailey Rose, 19, promotes mental health and Plains Cree culture as a youth rep for FSIN and AFN. She organizes a powwow, inspiring her mom to wear a ribbon skirt. Host Joel joins to witness their Cree culture revival and learn Cree words.

7. Rotshennon:ni Two-Axe and Kayla Spencer-Young: IndigeSTEM

Aired: 6/22/2024

Rotshennon:ni Two-Axe, 18 (Mohawk), and Kayla Spencer-Young, 20 (Cree), start IndigeSTEM at Dawson College, merging Indigenous and western science. Host Joshua Odjick joins to inspire Indigenous students in science.

8. Kyrstin Dumont: Gorgeous Diversity

Aired: 6/29/2024

Kyrstin Dumont, 20, an Algonquin activist, organizes her first Indigenous fashion show in Ottawa with host Anna Lambe, preparing sponsors, models, and the venue in just three weeks before the runway event.

9. Sophia Sidarous: Protect and Defend

Aired: 7/6/2024

Sophia Sidarous, 20, a land defender in Metepenagiag, New Brunswick, protects Mi'kmaq land and participates in traditional powwows. Host Joshua Odjick joins her, experiencing his first powwow dance at her invitation.

10. Kya Steinbach Parker: Bridging the Gap

Aired: 7/13/2024

Kya Steinbach-Parker, 17, a Mi'kmaq/Seneca activist, advocates for Indigenous education. Inspired by The Honorable Murray Sinclair, she and host Joel Oulette join a Truth and Reconciliation March, sharing her vision for education.

11. Rylee Nepinak: Taking Anishiative

Aired: 7/20/2024

Rylee Nepinak co-founded Anishiative to connect Indigenous youth to land education. In 2022, he cycled across Canada to raise awareness and funds for a youth suicide crisis in Tataskweyak. Host Joshua joins him for a Warrior ceremony.

12. Cherokee Riders: We Remember: Part 1

Aired: 7/27/2024

Desiree Mathews, Jeanetta Leach, Kayce O'Field, Emily Christie, and Madison Whitekiller, prepare for a 950-mile ride retracing their Cherokee ancestors' removal. Host Anna Lambe joins them for the first week on the Trail of Tears.

13. Cherokee Riders: We Remember: Part 2

Aired: 8/3/2024

Desiree Mathews, Jeanetta Leach, Kayce O'Field, Emily Christie, and Madison Whitekiller, Oklahoma cyclists, follow the Trail of Tears, their Cherokee ancestors' path. Anna Lambe points to the importance of preserving this historic journey.