1. Jesse Thistle was born on 1976 and is a Metis-Cree author.
10 Facts About Jesse Thistle
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Jesse Thistle is an assistant professor in the department of humanities at York University in Toronto.
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Jesse Thistle is the author of the 2019 memoir, From the Ashes, and 2022 poetry book Scars and Stars.
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Jesse Thistle's mother, Blanche Morissette, is Metis-Cree and was a member of the Park Valley road allowance community in Big River, Saskatchewan.
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Jesse Thistle obtained a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies with a specialized honours in history from York University in 2015.
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Jesse Thistle completed a Masters of History at the University of Waterloo in 2016, where his thesis was entitled: The Puzzle of the Morrissette-Arcand Clan: A History of Metis Historic and Intergenerational Trauma and where he worked with Susan Roy.
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Jesse Thistle is a Trudeau Scholar, administered by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a Vanier scholar and was awarded a Governor General's Silver Medal in 2016.
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The main thrust of Jesse Thistle's research involves research into the road allowance Metis in Saskatchewan through the research into his own family history.
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Jesse Thistle published a new definition of Indigenous homelessness in October, 2017.
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In 2019 Jesse Thistle published a memoir entitled From the Ashes.