Name: Seven Fallen Feathers
Rating: 4.522727272727272 (22 reviews)
ISBN: 9781487002268

Tanya Talaga

The shocking true story covered by the Guardian and the New York Times of the seven young indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city.

Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Seven Fallen Feathers

Gelaine Trinidad

Tanya Talaga does an astounding job of providing a well-researched, empathic record of what happened to these seven fallen feathers and how it is, in no doubt, connected to the impact of colonization and years of trauma it caused. A must-read. As Canadians, we must continue to stand for and protect our Indigenous community.

"Cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group. States that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social institutions of the targeted group. Land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and their movement is restricted. Languages are banned. Spiritual leaders are persecuted, spiritual practices are forbidden, and objects of spiritual value are confiscated and destroyed. And, most significantly to the issue at hand, families are disrupted to prevent the transmission of cultural values and identity from one generation to the next. In its dealing with Aboriginal people, Canada did all these things" - Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Ali Angco

Asha Sidhu

Samantha Jackson

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.

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

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