Wandering Stars

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison where he is forced to learn English and practise Christianity by an evangelical prison guard. A man who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, dedicated to the eradication of Native culture. Years later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to this school, where he is brutalised by the same man.
Together nos with fellow student Opal Viola, Charles envisions a future far away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines and continues to cast its long shadow down to Orvil, in twenty-first-century California. Full of poetry, music, rage and love, Wandering Stars looks to the past and future across three generations of the Bear Shield and Red Feather family, finding their way through displacement and pain, towards home and hope.