Jesse Thistle (born 1976) is a Métis-Cree author and assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto. He is the author of the internationally best-selling memoir, From the Ashes. He is a PhD candidate in the History program at York University where he is working on theories of intergenerational, historic trauma, and survivance of road allowance Métis people. This work, which involves reflections on his own previous struggles with addiction and homelessness, has been recognized as having wide impact on both the scholarly community and the greater public. en