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Seven Fallen Feathers

Seven Fallen Feathers

Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

by Tanya Talaga
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/11/2017

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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 Canada's long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
ISBN:
9781487002268
9781487002268
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-11-2017
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
215x139x25mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Tanya Talaga

Tanya Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, a multi-award winner including the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ- Young Adult/Adult Award. The book was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction.

Talaga was the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and is the author of the US bestseller All Our Relations. For more than twenty years she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star. Talaga is of Polish and Ojibwe descent. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.

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