What literary devices are in this poem? What type of poem is it? (ballad) I NEED HELP ASAP!!! Tell me Where is it written In this oral tradition What what I create Is subject to such dictations Lorded over by some sort Of ethno-eccentrics That says because you are brown You must paint nothing but eagles And sing nothing but powwow And write nothing but how good It is to be Native And how badly we were treated By the government and churches And how tasty bannock is Which isn't even Native And even why I have to proclaim My genetic life story Why does this scene Want my treaty card to precede me? Why am I evil If I say I don't want to? Why can't I be me Who just happens to be Cree? Why can't my style stand apart From all this souvenir-stand art? I do not hate what I am I just don't live by sweetgrass plans I am not brown and acting black I don't watch Tribal Trails or scream at you To give our land back I am what I am First and above all In this life of mine Being brown is an afterthought .