Maybe 3.5 stars, but the first few chapters were really not well done, to the point that I almost stopped reading. the author was providing the story of his grandparents and father but it wasn't a story - it was a cataloguing of events, just dumped into text, and it was almost unreadable.

Luckily it got much better after the author caught up to when he born and it became an autobiography plus a biography of the author's father. The rest of the book was really interesting with discussion of Indigenous way of life and spiritualism. Although I did enjoy it, and it kept me reading, I felt like it could have been told better. I think that Wab Kinew is known a a story teller, but he just didn't seem able to bring it to this book. He skated over some big issues that came across as him just not wanting to address them.

I'm glad I read it, and some parts were excellent, but it didn't live up to my hopes.