When it comes to re-writing history, no genre of narrative storytelling is more guilty than the Western. Since the dawn of creative storytelling, the Old West has been an empty canvas for authors and artists to erroneously portray the founding of the United States and, most problematically, reinforce negative stereotypes of Indigenous people against the backdrop of white settlers. In short, Westerns are disproportionately told by and through the lens of non-Indigenous people, even still to this day, as the most popular Western story of the last decade is a classic soap about a white family, Yellowstone.
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