This is the first full length feature film written, directed and co-produced by native Americans: "It is a good day to be indigenous" is how the radio announcer of the semi-deserted Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation greets his listeners. Yet, what starts off with ironic self-reflectiveness turns into a cliched journey of self-discovery and forgiveness.

Victor, an athletic and self-confident young man who desperately attempts to embody the stoic, warrior type, cannot forgive his father Arnold for leaving him and his mother after the Independence Day party got out of hand ten years ago. Thomas, the self-appointed story-teller of the community, keeps pestering him with tales of Arnold's life-saving heroism years ago. At the news of Arnold's death, Victor sets out on a trip to his father's remains with Thomas as his traveling companion.

The six day journey is apparently supposed to transform their self-perception as American Indians, and their relationship to the father figure. Yet, the transformations are overly-quick and unconvincing as they fall back on stereotype.

Victor begins to listen to the medicine man's transcendental stories, while Thomas experiments with the silent warrior demeanour. The film is at its best in its most ironic moments. There are plenty of intertextual references to the Western genre and its first nations stereotypes. Yet, while the film raises the issue of Native American stereotypes it does not come up with any alternatives, thereby repeating the very limitations it aims to challenge.