| Summary: | Warrior Up! is a documentary series that follows Indigenous youth across Turtle Island who are standing up and making change, transforming their communities, their lands and their lives for the better. Episode 5: What if instead of calling people living on the streets 'homeless', we called them 'our relatives'? And what if we treated them more as we do our own family? That's what sixteen-year-old Dakota/ Ojibwe warrior Isaac Garcia has done since the age of ten. Isaac rallies his classmates to collect essentials and pack them into 'Blessing Bags', then organizes his family to bring the bags to those who need them. Host Joshua Odjick joins Issac to pack the bags before they can distribute them on St. Paul, Minnesota's streets. Along the way, Isaac brings Joshua to train at his part-time barista job at Indigenous Roots Cafe and to visit an outdoor art installation called "Never Homeless Before 1492" that commemorates the state's largest homeless encampment that was populated by Indigenous people until its recent removal. As Isaac and his family pass out the Blessing Bags on the city's streets, he shares his future dream to eventually become mayor of St. Paul, so he better help the city's unsheltered residents.
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