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Seven Fallen Feathers

Tanya Talaga

From Shelf: "The Best Books by Women of the 21st Century." The Irish Times for International Women's Day 2022

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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
304
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
ISBN:
9781487002268
Published Date:
16/11/2017
Dimensions:
215mm x 139mm
Weight:
458g
Category:
Indigenous peoples

RRP: £13.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781487002268


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