Description:
Ela Tahoe, a runaway turned deputy sheriff, is forced to contend with a Confederate invasion of her New Mexican town three months after the conclusion of the Civil War. Ela will need to confront her heritage and past with the Apache in order to get their aid to combat this Confederate threat, leading her to look at the world from the Native American perspective once again. Conceived as a tightly paced, gut wrenching western thriller, Ela fights tooth and nail to save the lives of her townspeople and most importantly, her son.
The American Western Frontier is arguably one of the most widely misrepresented histories, rife with inaccuracies and stereotypes. Black Mi?kmaq and Anishinaabe author Tristan Jones powerfully and critically reimagines and reclaims a historical retelling of the Frontier with a focus on the historically missing Indigenous narrative. Illustrated by master sequential artist Alexander Bumbulut, The Forgotten Frontier should be on everyone's reading list.
Brief description: TRISTAN JONES is a classically trained writer and life long comics fan. He was born in Toronto, Canada, and is a multiracial Indigenous person of Black Mi'kmaq heritage and Anishinaabe ancestry. Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature from Toronto Metropolitan University, he excelled in his creative writing classes. Out of a desire to study and write about Indigenous culture, he chose to focus his efforts on re-contextualizing the American western genre with his debut work, "The Forgotten Frontier."
Review Quotes: 'A culturally rich, Tarantino-esque romp through the West complete with revisionist history and a healthy dose of old-fashioned violence.' ? David A. Robertson, two-time Governor General's Literary Award winner