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

The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tanya Talaga
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781487002268
• ISBN: 978-1-4870-0226-8
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 139 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 458 g
• Illustration: 8-page colour insert
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Relating to Native American people, Woodland style, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous, Relating to Native American people / First Americans