Seven Fallen Feathers, Tanya Talaga
Seven Fallen Feathers, Tanya Talaga
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Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Author: Tanya Talaga

Narrator: Michaela Washburn

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2018

Synopsis

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 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.

About Tanya Talaga

TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kara on August 21, 2020

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City is one of those books I wish didn’t exist but am so grateful it does. Over the past few years, I’ve seen my city come up in the national media from time to time—and often related to Indigenous issues, such as the deaths or inqu......more

Goodreads review by Katy O. on December 26, 2017

Hands down one of the most important nonfiction books I have ever read. It's also one that I encourage every single resident of the US and Canada to read, whether or not it's a book you WANT to read. While it is about the Seven Fallen Feathers (mysterious deaths of Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay),......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 17, 2023

Canada’s struggles with its relationship with its indigenous communities continues! Tanya Talaga is an Anishinaabe Canadian journalist, an author and an investigative reporter. Her story of seven indigenous high school students who died under suspicious, unexplained circumstances in Thunder Bay, Onta......more

Goodreads review by Krista on November 16, 2017

To understand the stories of the seven lost students who are the subjects of this book, the seven “fallen feathers”, you must understand Thunder Bay's past, how the seeds of division, of acrimony and distaste, of a lack of cultural awareness and understanding, were planted in those early days, an......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 01, 2021

Every Canadian Should Be Required To Read This Book Award winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga explains the importance behind the need for Reconciliation. This is a heartbreaking story about systemic racism that is impacting Indigenous people. It's impact on First Nation children trying to ga......more

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