{"product_id":"seven-fallen-feathers-racism-death-and-hard-truths-in-a-northern-city-9781487002268","title":"Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe shocking true story covered by the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e of the seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore 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 finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this small northern city that has come to manifest Canada's long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA portion of each sale of Seven Fallen Feathers will go to the Dennis Franklin Cromarty Memorial Fund, set up in 1994 to financially assist Nishnawbe Aski Nation students' studies in Thunder Bay and at post-secondary institutions. Further donations can be made to: http: \/\/www.cromartyfund.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tanya Talaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487002268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalaga, Tanya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTANYA TALAGA is the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult\/Adult Award; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC's Nonfiction Book of the Year, a \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller. Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eAll Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward\u003c\/em\u003e. For more than twenty years she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a columnist at the newspaper. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised in Raith and Graham, Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39826883149939,"sku":"9781487002268","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e1cb5ec4-39a8-4964-aec8-f94e7497aa7e.jpg?v=1644557125","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/seven-fallen-feathers-racism-death-and-hard-truths-in-a-northern-city-9781487002268","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}