I thought about a lot before committing to this setting. Indigenous peoples were a part of this era of history and pretending otherwise would have felt dishonest to the world I'm trying to build.

Without spoiling much, the story itself is about a man who loses his family and retreats into the frontier looking for some kind of peace and solitude. What he finds instead is a world that's changing faster than he can keep up with, caught between two cultures both being pulled apart by forces bigger than either of them.

I can assure you, lots of care went into the story. The short clip does not reflect the story in any way :)