🌎 North America 13h ago · Cheyenne McNeill

In His Debut Novel, Blair Palmer Yoxall Rejects the Cowboys vs. Indians Western

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The traditional western format has long featured the “Cowboys vs. Indians” archetype. These are often tales of good vs. evil, where a gun-slinging cowboy leaves a trail of dead, “savage” Indians in his wake as he traverses the wild American West. But what if the cowboys were also Indians? This is the question that Métis writer, Blair Palmer Yoxall, ponders in his debut novel, Treat Them as Buffalo, out this week. 



Through the eyes of a 12-year-old Métis boy named Niko, Yoxall tells the s

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