In the poem “Buffalo Soldier,” Bob Marley challenges the traditional narrative of the American West by exposing the role of black soldiers of the expansion in the United States. Rather than showing the expansion as heroic, the speaker explains “stolen from Africa, brought to America” (Marley 4) this quote has a clear distinction of where they came from to where they went. it shows that black people were forced into coming into America, not willingly wanting to be a part of it. This connects to colonization because it represents how the states was built by