{"product_id":"seven-fallen-feathers-racism-death-and-hard-truths-in-a-northern-city","title":"Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult\/Adult\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51627760779566,"sku":"9781487002268","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781487002268.jpg?v=1768326172","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/seven-fallen-feathers-racism-death-and-hard-truths-in-a-northern-city","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}