Cherokee Riders: We Remember: Part 1 | Warrior Up! Episode 112 | APTN

Five Cherokee young women complete a gruelling 950-mile bike ride retracing the forced removal of their ancestors.
Oklahomans Desiree Mathews, 18, Jeanetta Leach, 22, Kayce O’Field, Emily Christie and Madison Whitekiller, all 23, are about to start the ride of their lives. They’re in the last week of training before they’ll get on their bikes and follow the path of their Cherokee ancestors’ forced removal more than 180 years earlier. Host Anna Lambe meets up with them as they embark on their epic three-week journey, stopping at historical sites along the Trail of Tears. At one location, it’s the actual house where Desiree’s fourth great grandfather, Chief John Ross, once lived. Another stop brings the chance to sing a hymn in Cherokee at the campsite where a number of their ancestors died of exposure. The riders are dismayed by a sacred burial site hemmed in and forgotten by a shopping mall parking lot but feel buoyed at another stop by settler Americans fundraising to build a monument and park to keep the memory of the Forced Removal alive. And despite the great emotional ups and downs at each stop, the riders draw strength from each other on the first half of their trip.
Warrior Up! is a 13 x 22-minute youth documentary series that follows inspiring Indigenous youth making positive change in their communities! Whether it’s defending the land, learning nearly lost Indigenous hunting and building techniques, feeding unsheltered relatives or helping decolonize the fashion industry, the young changemakers featured in this series are making an impact. Warrior Up! shares their inspiring journeys of activism in engaging, entertaining ways as our three hosts take turns travelling Turtle Island, jumping in to lend a hand alongside these young warriors. Inuk actor Anna Lambe, 22, from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Anishinaabe actor Joshua Odjick, 21, from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, and actor Joel Oulette, 20, with ties to the Cumberland House Cree and Red River Métis Nation, find themselves shooting arrows from horseback, improvising a rap, walking the runway, building a pit house and packing blessing bags, learning just what it means to be a warrior.
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