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Shop nowSeven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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Michaela Washburn
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9 hours 7 minutes
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English
The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.
Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canadaās long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. Her father is Polish Canadian. Tanya is a proud member of Fort William First Nation.
Ā She is the acclaimed author ofĀ theĀ national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen PrizeĀ for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award; was a finalist forĀ the Hilary Weston Writersā Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Non-Fiction; andĀ was CBCās Nonfiction Book of the Year and aĀ Globe and MailĀ Top 100 Book.Ā
Talaga was the 2017ā2018Ā Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and is the author of the nationalĀ bestsellerĀ All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalistĀ at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail.Ā
Talaga's third book, The Knowing, based on her family's experience in residentialĀ schools, will be published in late summer, 2024.
Tanya Talaga is the founder ofĀ Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories through documentary films and podcasts. In 2021, she founded the charity, the Spirit to Soar Fund, which is aimed at improving the lives of First Nations youth living in northern Ontario. Talaga has five honorary doctorates.
