The People Shall Continue coyote lightly sprinkled with elegant drawings

lightly sprinkled with elegant drawings

confronting family tragedies

And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time

she interviewed people who talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist

” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection

The People Shall Continue coyote lightly sprinkled with elegant drawingsTold in the rhythms of traditional oral narrative, this powerful telling of the history of the Native Indigenous peoples of North America recounts their story from Creation to the invasion and usurpation of Native lands. As more and more people arrived, The People saw that the new men did not respect the land. The People witnessed the destruction of their Nations and the enslavement of their people. The People fought hard, but eventually agreed to