In the ceremonial spaces of Hopeton Earthworks and the Mound City Group, the land reveals traces of a worldview guided by intention and a deep connection to earth, water and sky. 2000 years ago, Indigenous people returned to these earthworks again and again, drawn to a landscape where belief was shaped directly into the land. What did they understand about the universe—and their place within it? Logan York, a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, travels to the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio, to walk the land his ancestors once shaped, and considers what guided their decisions. What purposes were embedded in these vast designs? And what understandings still lie just beyond what we can fully grasp?