Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city / Tanya Talaga.
Material type:
TextPublisher: [Toronto] : Anansi, 2017Description: 361 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781487002268
- 1487002262
- Indigenous peoples -- Violence against -- Ontario -- Thunder Bay
- Thunder Bay (Ont.) -- Race relations
- Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- Thunder Bay -- Social conditions
- Indigenous peoples -- Ontario, Northern -- Social conditions
- Indigenous peoples -- Ontario, Northern -- Government relations
- Indians of North America -- Education -- Ontario, Northern
- Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Canada
- Canada -- Race relations
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities."-- Provided by publisher.