'Overcome with emotion': First Nations student named Rhodes scholar
«The first Canadian First Nations student to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship says he’s hoping to serve as an inspiration to other indigenous people, while also changing the way First Nations people are so often portrayed.
Billy-Ray Belcourt, a member of the Driftpile Cree Nation, near Joussard, Alb., who’s been studying Comparative Literature student at the University of Alberta, says he was “overcome with emotion” when he learned he had been chosen for the prestigious scholarship. The first person he called was his grandmother, who he says was a major force in his upbringing. [...]»













