A BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING BOOK:
Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers continues to be a huge bestseller and has won/been nonimated for several major Canadian Nonfiction prizes. The book is on the national bestseller list, and was named a best book of the year by CBC, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Chatelaine. Many feel that it was the nonfiction book of 2017.
SEVEN FALLEN FEATHERS RECEIVED FANTASTIC U.S. REVIEWS:
Seven Fallen Feathers has been highly praised in U.S. publications. Both Booklist and Publishers Weekly gave it starred reviews.
A SUPERSTAR AUTHOR AND A HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER SPEAKER:
Talaga has shot out of the gates with her first book to become a big author. She is constantly asked to comment on Indigenous issues in major national radio and newspapers and to speak to audiences of up to a thousand people. She is an exceptionally powerful and charismatic speaker, and has been asked to give talks to government policymakers, as well as many education boards and teachers.
U.S. MEDIA IS TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TOWARD INDIGENOUS ISSUES:
From recent events at Standing Rock to President Trump’s derogatory use of “Pocahontas,” Indigenous issues are on the rise in America. We’ve heard that editors at publications such as the Huffington Post and the New York Review of Books are interested in covering this issue more broadly.
HER POSITION ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES IS REACHING “BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE”:
Talaga’s book has had a huge impact. It has reached many readers, both sympathetic and new to the subject, and it is also being course-adopted — it is getting into the exact system it is highly critical of and to people in positions of power who can make change. This new book will no doubt do the same.
THE SUBJECT OF HER MASSEY LECTURES IS HIGHLY TIMELY AND AN EQUALLY BIG ISSUE:
While Seven Fallen Feathers addressed the crisis in Indigenous youth education following the end of the residential school system, All Our Relations will examine the crisis in healthcare, particularly mental health among Indigenous youths with regards to the suicide epidemic. It will contextualize the issue by explaining the causality of historical disruption, cultural losses, and intergenerational trauma and the high rates of suicide among youths. It will also argue that like education, healthcare too is yet another system infected with racism and discrimination.
A BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING BOOK:
Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers continues to be a huge bestseller and has won/been nonimated for several major Canadian Nonfiction prizes. The book is on the national bestseller list, and was named a best book of the year by CBC, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Chatelaine. Many feel that it was the nonfiction book of 2017.
SEVEN FALLEN FEATHERS RECEIVED FANTASTIC U.S. REVIEWS:
Seven Fallen Feathers has been highly praised in U.S. publications. Both Booklist and Publishers Weekly gave it starred reviews.
A SUPERSTAR AUTHOR AND A HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER SPEAKER:
Talaga has shot out of the gates with her first book to become a big author. She is constantly asked to comment on Indigenous issues in major national radio and newspapers and to speak to audiences of up to a thousand people. She is an exceptionally powerful and charismatic speaker, and has been asked to give talks to government policymakers, as well as many education boards and teachers.
U.S. MEDIA IS TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TOWARD INDIGENOUS ISSUES:
From recent events at Standing Rock to President Trump’s derogatory use of “Pocahontas,” Indigenous issues are on the rise in America. We’ve heard that editors at publications such as the Huffington Post and the New York Review of Books are interested in covering this issue more broadly.
HER POSITION ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES IS REACHING “BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE”:
Talaga’s book has had a huge impact. It has reached many readers, both sympathetic and new to the subject, and it is also being course-adopted — it is getting into the exact system it is highly critical of and to people in positions of power who can make change. This new book will no doubt do the same.
THE SUBJECT OF HER MASSEY LECTURES IS HIGHLY TIMELY AND AN EQUALLY BIG ISSUE:
While Seven Fallen Feathers addressed the crisis in Indigenous youth education following the end of the residential school system, All Our Relations will examine the crisis in healthcare, particularly mental health among Indigenous youths with regards to the suicide epidemic. It will contextualize the issue by explaining the causality of historical disruption, cultural losses, and intergenerational trauma and the high rates of suicide among youths. It will also argue that like education, healthcare too is yet another system infected with racism and discrimination.