Daughter of a Lost Bird follows Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white family, as she reconnects with her Native identity. The film—both instigator and follower—documents Kendra on this odyssey as she finds her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee, and returns to her Lummi homelands. Relying upon verité scenes as the bulk of the film, the story is intense, emotional, personal, and represents many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and Indian Adoption Project. We watch both women navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in.

Daughter of a Lost Bird is a participant of Project: Hatched 2021.