Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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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
Eyes Opened
This book is eye-opening. You cannot read this without ending with the conclusion that we have failed miserably in being fair and equitable to indigenous peoples both in North America. So many of our leaders are still using colonizer’s thinking. My heart breaks for the children. They deserve the very best we can give regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or religion.