This work has been sitting in an outdoor storage in Edmonton since 2016. It was originally commissioned by the City of Edmonton vis a vis the Edmonton Arts Council (EAC) and intended to be sited on both ends of the pedestrian passerelle adjoining the New Walterdale Bridge. The city has expressed worry that First Nations and Indigenous voices today would object to this work and read it as colonialist, despite my intentions. (It had gone through numerous engagements with First Nations and Indigenous groups in 2013 and 2014 which the EAC acknowledges.) The work makes explicit the continuing condition of coloniality that exists today. The Buffalo and the Fur Trader stare warily at one another across the expanse of the North Saskatchewan river (as viewers traverse the passarelle)–the wisdom offered by First Nations and Indigenous peoples vs the folly of the rapacious capitalist represented by the hatted white man atop a pile of buffalo pelts. I feel that it is this dialectic that continues to be choices confronting humanity today–to learn from First Nations and Indigenous knowledges or to continue on as we have on a destructive ecological and social path. The top of the Buffalo is just shy of 4 meters (or 13 feet) in height. The Fur Trader stands 3.5 meters (or 11.5 feet) in height. Both are in bronze. Two of the photos show half size iterations in plaster in my studio. The plaster works were digitized and enlarged to full scale, then milled in foam for making the molds for bronze pouring.