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Colorado, 1864. After surviving the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 200 Native Americans were killed, Star is transferred to Fort Marion, a prison-fortress. There, he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by order of Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical jailer who will later found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to eradicating Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, ends up at the same school, where he is mistreated by his father's former jailer. While enduring Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles finds solace in the moments he shares with a young classmate, Opal Viola, and together they imagine a future free from the institutional violence that haunts their families. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield tries to keep her family together after an event that changes the course of everyone's lives. Her great-nephew, Orvil, survived a shooting, but upon waking in the hospital, he began compulsively searching YouTube for videos of school shootings and is developing a dependence on painkillers. Her younger brother, Lony, who was also present, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and, in an attempt to make sense of what he experienced, secretly cuts himself and performs blood rituals, hoping they will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal, who is also lost, experiments with ceremonies and peyote in search of a way to heal her family's wounds.