In What You Pawn, I Will Redeem, Jackson squared, as his family nicknamed him, is a homeless, young adult who was walking by a pawn shop when he realizes that his grandmother, Agnes’, powwow regalia was hanging in the window. When he entered the store, the storekeeper made a deal with him, that if he could come up with one thousand dollars in twenty-four hours, he would sell it back to him considering it was stolen from his family in the first place. Jackson’s friend, Rose of Sharon, told him that he should go to the cops but, Jackson said that he did not want to because it was his mission to buy it back on his own. After he had become blackout drunk and passed out on the railroad tracks, a cop that he had been familiar with woke him up, put
