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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Talaga, Tanya. Seven fallen feathers. Toronto : Anansi Nonfiction, 2017 (OCoLC)987578462 Talaga, Tanya. Seven fallen feathers. (CaOONL)20169070204 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tanya Talaga |
| ISBN: | 9781487002268 1487002262 |
| OCLC Number: | 987578118 |
| Awards: | Winner of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize. |
| Description: | 361 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Notes from a Blind Man -- Why Chanie Ran -- When the Wolf Comes -- Hurting from the Before -- Hollowness of Not Knowing -- We Speak for the Dead to Protect the Living -- Brothers -- River, Give Me My Son Back -- Less Than Worthy Victims -- Seven Fallen Feathers. |
| Responsibility: | Tanya Talaga. |
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[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families. . . . Talaga's incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves. * Booklist * Talaga's research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. . . . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action. * Publisher's Weekly * What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga's is a book to be justly infuriated by. * Globe and Mail * Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay - Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse - searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven't investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough. * National Post * [W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga's intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner's office. It's a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we're at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all. * The Walrus * Read more...
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This book set 2000 to 2011 tells how the Canadian government separated Native American children from their families and placed in residential schools. The book focused on an eight-month investigation into the death of seven indigenous high school students that died in Thunder Bay, Canada. The jury did not hold anyone responsible for the deaths but issued 145 recommendations on how to treat indigenous students with the same as other non-indigenous students. In 2016, the Canadian Human rights Tribunal concluded that the government systematically racially discriminated against indigenous children. Separately, the Office of Independent Police Review planned to review the actions of the Thunder Bay Police Service for evidence of racism or discrimination conduct in missing indigenous persons and death investigations. While the governments may have implemented small changes because of the investigations, the book describes how easy it is to ignore or support systematic mistreatment of a group or class of people.
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- Indigenous peoples -- Violence against -- Ontario -- Thunder Bay.
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- Thunder Bay (Ont.) -- Race relations.
- Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- Thunder Bay -- Social conditions.
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