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    Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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    Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

    Written by Tanya Talaga

    Narrated by Michaela Washburn

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    In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.

    More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water.

    Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this small northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press Inc Audio
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9781487004422
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    Tanya Talaga

    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.  She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award; was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Non-Fiction; and was CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book.  Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and is the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail.  Talaga's third book, The Knowing, based on her family's experience in residential schools, will be published in late summer, 2024. Tanya Talaga is the founder of 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.

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    • 5/5
      There are no words that are enough to express my grief over the stories in this book. We must do better.
    • 5/5
      This was a very tough listen. Humbling. Infuriating. Sad. Talaga's prose is impeccable, and the emotion that could be felt through the narrator's voice added so much texture. I'm sure she had a hard time reading this as well.
      A must read for all people who live in Canada and North America.
    • 5/5
      This should be mandatory reading for every Canadian. I am forever changed.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Canadians, especially, should read this book, we need to educate ourselves on what the indigenous communities have faced for generations as a result of systemic injustice

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book should be required reading for all Canadians, Indigenous, non-Indigenous, allies, non-allies- basically anyone who can read.

      Heartbreaking and eye-opening. Tanya Talaga is an exceptional writer who manages to mould her journalistic writing into a tale more reminiscent of story-telling. Far from being a dry read, this bit of non-fiction reads like a harrowing tale without, sadly, any hint of a happy ending.

      MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION EVER!! I loved this book so much and find it so important that I will be giving away 10 copies of this book to friends, family and acquaintances. It is not a should read; it is a MUST read!!

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Although the book is centred around the the seven teens that died, the author has skillfully woven in the history of colonialism and its impact on the Northern Indigenous communities of Ontario. She brings the trauma of these communities to the forefront to help the reader understand the realities facing young indigenous teens who often have to travel hundreds of kilometres away just to get access to secondary education.
      I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the way the Canadian government systematically disenfranchised these populations, and how a racist police force and unreactive public did nothing to call to attention the crisis of missing and dead Indigenous women and teens.

      3 people found this helpful