Indige­nous weaves con­tem­po­rary and his­tor­i­cal threads that explore iden­ti­ty, con­nec­tion to tra­di­tions and land, and the com­plex rela­tion­ships of peo­ple strug­gling to find under­stand­ing. In ear­ly 2020, Shi­ra, who has with­drawn from her Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, grad­u­ate pro­gram after the trag­ic loss of her par­ents, attends a par­ty where she meets two vis­it­ing IDF reservists — Jor­dan, a for­mer lone sol­dier strug­gling with PTSD, and Daf­na, an Israeli anthro­pol­o­gy PhD stu­dent. When an earth­quake strikes, a vase is unearthed at the bur­ial site of Shira’s grand­fa­ther. Her grand­moth­er insists that Shi­ra return the vase to the Aco­ma Pueblo in New Mex­i­co, from where it came. The three set off to inves­ti­gate the vase’s ori­gin and dis­cov­er Shira’s family’s long-held secret. In the late 1860s, a Native child meets a young Jew­ish Pruss­ian man who has joined his broth­ers’ trad­ing com­pa­ny. Their rela­tion­ship and the child’s friend­ship with a two-spir­it per­son cre­ate a mys­tery that sur­faces a cen­tu­ry later.