The Wagon Burner and Other Stories

The Wagon Burner and Other Stories reflects on the social and political history of the wagon.

Departing from and centred around Blackfoot artist Terrance Houle's (BFA '03, Fibre)The Wagon Burner (2003), The Wagon Burner and Other Stories reflects on the social and political history of the wagon and how it has shaped our collective imaginaries of the North American landscape and the Indigenous communities that have lived on this land for thousands of years.

Bringing together newspaper clippings from the Library of Congress, montages of Western films, and posters from the Calgary Stampede, The Wagon Burner and Other Stories offers a snapshot of the history of this land, seen through the lens of a seemingly benign – yet often overlooked – mode of transport: the wagon.