Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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4.5 • 120 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The human-rights violations inflicted on Indigenous youth within Canada’s residential school system are a well-known, disgraceful chapter in the nation’s history. Sadly, as Seven Fallen Feathers reminds us, the country continues to fail First Nations communities both institutionally and ideologically. In this harrowing book, journalist Tanya Talaga tells the stories of seven Indigenous high school students who died in Thunder Bay, Ontario, between 2000 and 2011. Her devastating narrative is essential reading for anyone invested in understanding the grim realities that plague Canada’s most vulnerable population.
Customer Reviews
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.
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.
Seven fallen Feathers
Beautifully written a must read!!