In this monumental painting, Houle appropriates a canonical image from a painting by Benjamin West (1738–1820), The Death of General Wolfe, 1770, by copying the image in sepia-coloured Conté crayon, but paints only the regalia of a lone Delaware warrior. Houle’s painting forces recognition of First Nations and addresses the historical inaccuracy of the idea that the founding nations of Canada are England and France, echoing what his grandfather used to say concerning colonization: “Jiishin gegoo wiiseg maa akiing, Nishnaabe waabdaan” (“If history is going to happen, our people will witness it”).