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After his uncle goes missing, a young Coeur d'Alene Native American convinces his mom to hold a funeral. He reflects on all the family members he has lost and on their proximity to violence inflicted by the US government that is often viewed as past.

Two natives, the last of the Injuns in a colonized land, discuss their plans to reclaim their land from the whites. However, the male native falls into a fatal accident while practicing his shamanism and the lone woman feels the aftereffects.

The body of a sixty-three-year-old Mohawk woman's little brother is uncovered at the construction site of a fast food company fifty years after his death, which prompts her to grapple with questions of assimilation and memory.

A Navajo man tells the story of how he fell in love with an American woman and followed her to the northern mountains, consequently meeting her disapproving husband and breaching the boundary between American and Native American culture.

A group of white men establish ties with a village of indigenous peoples in Alaska after their U.S. Army Station is built nearby. When one of the indigenous men goes hunting and begins to see strange lights and unfamiliar objects, he wonders whether he should warn the white men of potential danger.

A young Native American man talks about his encounter with a white man who was captured by his tribe. The white man and the Native American man grow closer through mutual teaching.

When an old rival from the Comanche nation appears at his doorstep, a half-white, half-Indigenous ranch owner in Texas reckons with all that was taken away from their Native ancestors by colonizers.

Margaret and Grandfather Nanapush, two Chippewa elders, are captured and shamed by younger reservation inhabitants for their refusal to sign a controversial treaty. Nanapush and Margaret’s stepdaughter Fleur enact revenge through snares and old magic, respectively.

Set in Canada in the 1980s, an Indian-Canadian immigrant woman travels abroad, attempting to learn how to grieve her husband and sons after a terrorist attack on the plane kills them on their way to India.

In early America, a white father discovers a community of refugee Native Americans has taken up residence in his old home; rather than asking them to leave, he invites them to stay and break bread with him and his son.