From the Ashes

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  Interior design by Carly Loman

  Cover design by Jessica Lacy Boudreau

  Photograph of boy in field © Olha Solodenko/Shutterstock

  Photograph of boy’s hair © Radoslaw Sowinski/Shutterstock

  Photograph of sky © Jacobs Stock Photography/Getty Images

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Title: From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way / by Jesse Thistle.

  Names: Thistle, Jesse, author.

  Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190062770 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190062789 | ISBN 9781982101213 (softcover) | ISBN 9781982101237 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Thistle, Jesse. | LCSH: Métis—Biography. | LCSH: Cree Indians—Canada—Biography. | LCSH: Homeless persons—Canada—Biography. | LCSH: Addicts—Canada—Biography. | LCGFT: Autobiographies.

  Classification: LCC FC109.1.T45 A3 2019 | DDC 971.004/970092—dc23

  ISBN 978-1-9821-0121-3

  ISBN 978-1-9821-0123-7 (ebook)

  All photographs are courtesy of the author, except as noted. Portions of this text originally appeared on homelesshub.ca.