TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and
raised in Toronto. Her mother was raised on the traditional
territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. Her father is
Polish Canadian. Tanya is a proud member of Fort William First
Nation.
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; was a
finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for
Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Non-Fiction; and was
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, the
2018 CBC Massey Lecturer and is 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.
Talaga's third book, The Knowing, based on her family's experience
in residential schools, will be published in late summer,
2024.
Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production
company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories through
documentary films and podcasts. In 2021, she founded the charity,
the Spirit to Soar Fund, which is aimed at improving the lives of
First Nations youth living in northern Ontario. Talaga has five
honorary doctorates.
[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by
Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from
their homes and families. . . . Talaga’s incisive research and
breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step
closer to the healing it deserves.
*Booklist*
Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp
and uncompromising. . . . The book is heartbreaking and
infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and
a call to action.
*Publisher's Weekly*
What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but
Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem
itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust
Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated
by.
*Globe and Mail*
Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in
Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul
Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse —
searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the
authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the
contributing factors, nearly enough.
*National Post*
[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate
retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes
missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the
long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the
coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent
and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read
for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at,
and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us
all.
*The Walrus*
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