From Injun by Jordan Abel

Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel is the winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Griffin Prize, and the author of several books of poetry, including Injun - a powerful critique of how indigenous people in North America have historically been represented. Abel pieced these poems together from the text of nearly 100 novels written in the western genre between 1840 and 1950, effectively reclaiming and unsettling language mired in a destructive colonial legacy, and framing new possibilities for indigeneity.