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Canada Reads 2020 :  Jesse Thistle on From the Ashes Cover Image E-video E-video

Canada Reads 2020 : Jesse Thistle on From the Ashes video / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Summary:

Mťis-Cree writer Jesse Thistle talks about how our own story can emerge from getting the "small fragments of our experience" down on the page. In his memoir, From the Ashes: My Story of Being Mťis, Homeless, and Finding My Way, Thistle describes how he transformed his life - from being homeless and struggling with addiction to winning awards in academia. Thistle is now a professor at York University and a bestselling author.

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video (05 min 57 sec)
  • Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2020

Content descriptions

General Note:
From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Access restricted to Curio subscribers
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Producer: Van Koeverden, Jane.
Target Audience Note:
12-14.
System Details Note:
Available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: https://curio.ca/en/catalog/d859b33f-f795-4832-a3df-4c4cbbd9952d
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
CBC/Radio Canada has perpetual access rights to this streaming content.
Language Note:
In English.
Source of Description Note:
Source of description from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Thistle, Jesse
Addicts > Canada
Autobiography > Authorship
Biography as a literary form
Books and reading > Canada
Canadian literature
Canadian literature > Mťis authors
English language > Study and teaching
Homeless persons > Canada
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Biography
Indigenous peoples > Study and teaching > Canada
Language arts
Psychic trauma in literature
Psychology
Social justice > Study and teaching
Writing > Psychological aspects
Writing > Study and teaching


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