Seven Fallen Feathers

Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

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Tanya Talaga: Seven Fallen Feathers (2017)

361 pages

Langue : English

Publié 30 septembre 2017

ISBN :
978-1-4870-0226-8
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Numéro OCLC :
987578118

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In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks 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 a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death …

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Sujets

  • Violence against
  • Indians of North America
  • Government relations
  • Civil rights
  • Race relations
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Social conditions
  • Education

Lieux

  • Canada
  • Northern Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Thunder Bay
  • Thunder Bay (Ont.)