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Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation.
Quotes
Poets pledge allegiance to a country I don't believe in.
"A Country is How Men Hunt," NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field (2019)
The fundamental violence of colonialism, then, is perhaps the inculcated sense, a sensation that bubbles up most acutely by way of the physiological, that your body is not yours to keep, that it is never solely yours to maintain sovereign control over.
"To Be Unbodied" (2019)
External links
Category:Poets from Canada
Category:Native Americans
Category:LGBT people
Category:Living people