From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

by Jesse Thistle

“I don’t know. He said something about a vision, like he’s a mystic Indian or something.”

“What are you thinking, fool? Wake up. We are people, too, you know. We give and trust just like all those people on the outside, like all those good people.

don’t believe in dope dealing,” she said. “It’s poisoning our kind. Broken-hearted people with nowhere to be in the world.”