Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

Sasha LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha.



With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother-a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed-Sasha throws herse...