Truth Telling
Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
-
- $11.99
Publisher Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER High Plains Book Award
FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
FINALIST for the Indigenous Voices Award
Longlisted for the First Nation Communities READ
A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.
With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge.
From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada.
Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples.
Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Cree author Michelle Good gives a blunt overview of exactly where Canada is on its long and difficult road from genocide to reconciliation. These seven essays outline the impact of the most insidious, pervasive tactics employed by colonialists for hundreds of years in an ongoing effort to destroy First Nations culture, from purposefully wiping out the buffalo and kidnapping a generation of children to the modern phenomenon of “pretendians” who assume a false identity so they can usurp grants and positions reserved for Indigenous people. By candidly sharing her own lived experiences, Good devastatingly personalizes the multigenerational trauma of her people. If you’ve ever wanted to know the real history of Canada, this is a brutally enlightening read.
