Seven Fallen Feathers Seven Fallen Feathers

Seven Fallen Feathers

Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2017
September 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
376
Pages
PUBLISHER
House of Anansi Press Inc
SELLER
House of Anansi Press Inc.
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Nagina 1 ,

Seven Fallen Feathers

It is a great book that everyone should read. To see what has been happening in our own backyard has left me disheartened, and things need to change. I liked where she would go back and tell the stories of the residential schools and where the children grew up before going to Thunder Bay, as it puts things into perspective.

Frenchlm ,

Raw, emotional truth telling

I must admit before I read this book my knowledge of the Indigenous experience in Canada was very limited. This book has opened my eyes to the work we still need to do. This book will always commemorate the start of my long journey to understanding, and fighting the racism we have created against indigenous peoples in this nation. May we all learn, and do better.

Amber Risingmoon ,

Seven fallen Feathers

Beautifully written a must read!!

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