Buffalo Is The New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel,

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Powerful stories of “Métis futurism” that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization.

“Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as…

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1 author picked Buffalo Is The New Buffalo as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I’ve been a huge fan of Chelsea Vowel since listening to her podcast, Métis In Space, and an admirer of the decolonial lens she brings to science fiction and fantasy, so I was thrilled when she at last released an entire book of her own fiction.

These are stories about rewriting the past and reclaiming the future for Indigenous peoples in general and Métis people in particular. It is a demanding book in many ways. It demands that you engage with languages and histories that settler Canadian culture seeks to obscure. It demands that you sit with the discomfort…

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