Description
Product ID: | 9781487002268 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Seven Fallen Feathers |
Subtitle: | Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City |
Authors: | Author: Tanya Talaga |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Indigenous peoples, Human rights, civil rights, Civics and citizenship, Indigenous peoples, Human rights, Civil rights & citizenship |
Description: | The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years. Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers'' Trust Prize for Political Writing 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. |
Imprint Name: | House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada |
Publisher Name: | House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-11-16 |