Tanya Talaga

The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by...

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga has received numerous accolades: 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 This groundbreaking and multiple award-winning...

The bestselling investigation Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga is a profound exploration of grief, resilience, and systemic injustice faced by Indigenous communities in Canada. The book begins with the haunting death of Chanie Wenjack in 1966, a twelve-year-old boy who perished after escaping the horrors of a residential school. His death triggered an inquest with four poignant recommendations aimed...