Man on the street: Indigenous puppeteer, comedian and storyteller DerRic Starlight faced homelessness head on
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In the final chapter of DerRic Starlight’s memoir, See-Me Street: My Homeless Indigenous Journey, there is a list of 19 people we meet in the book. Beside each of their names is the word ‘gone.’ By gone, he means they are dead, with lives that were rarely celebrated and deaths that were barely documented. “Each […]
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Jul 30, 2026