But in order to fully understand the hostile climate in Thunder Bay-and how that climate has the power to destroy the lives of Indigenous students who come to the city to seek better educations and futures-one must understand the history of Canada’s cultural genocide against its Indigenous population. Seven Fallen Feathers focuses primarily on the first two decades of the 21st century, exploring the social, economic, and political conditions surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students in the racially divided city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Based on those lectures, she wrote a book entitled All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, about the crisis of youth suicide in Indigenous communities across Canada. Talaga was named the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and delivered the 2018 Massey Lectures. It was released in 2017 to great critical acclaim-it became a national bestseller, and won the RBC Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The resulting book became Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City. In 2011, while writing a feature on Indigenous voter turnout in advance of an upcoming federal election, the tribal leaders Talaga spoke with across Ontario encouraged her to write about a more important issue: the deaths of Indigenous high school students in the Thunder Bay area. She was raised in Toronto and worked as a journalist for the Toronto Star for more than 20 years. Tanya Talaga is an Ojibwe writer and journalist with roots in Fort William First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
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