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Seven fallen feathers, racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city, Tanya Talaga

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Seven fallen feathers, racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city, Tanya Talaga

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seven fallen feathers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tanya Talaga

Sub title

racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city

Summary

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks of a northern Canadian city after running away from residential school. An inquest was called, and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than thirty years later, between 2000 and 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Each of them was hundreds of miles away from family, forced to leave home and live in a foreign, unwelcoming city in order to continue their education. Using a sweeping narrative that focuses on the lives of the students, investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this small northern city, which has come to manifest Canada's long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities. In doing so, she illuminates the plight of Indigenous people all round the world who face similar dispossession, hostility, and neglect

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