The People Shall Continue coyote ” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry

” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection

"Obviously to equate Geronimo with Osama bin Laden is an unpardonable slander of Native America and its most famous leader

world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket

guarded fire and kept it from the earth

The People Shall Continue coyote ” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetryTold 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