Tanya Talaga

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Caption: Tanya Talaga highlights the lives of seven Indigenous students in Seven Fallen Feathers. (CBC)

Tanya Talaga is an investigative journalist. She has received two National Newspaper Awards recognizing her work on investigative projects. In 2017, she was named the Atkinson Fellow for public policy. The work produced during this period form the basis of Talaga's 2018 CBC Massey Lectures, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.
She authored Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City in 2017, a nonfiction study of a community in northern Ontario trying to understand a series of Indigenous student deaths. The book won the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize. It also appeared on the Canada Reads(external link) 2018 longlist.
You can listen to the 2018 Massey Lectures here.

Books by Tanya Talaga

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Interviews with Tanya Talaga

Media Video | Ideas : Why Tanya Talaga wanted to begin the 2018 CBC Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay

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Media Video | Ideas : 'This is where I am from:' Tanya Talaga explains why land connects her to all the women in her family.

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Media Video | Politics News : Tanya Talaga discusses suicide crisis on Canada's First Nation reserves | Sunday Scrum

Caption: Tanya Talaga is the author featured in this year's CBC Massey Lectures: All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, which explores youth suicide on some First Nation reserves. Talaga speaks with CBC's John Northcott about the devastating legacy of what some say amounts to cultural genocide against Indigenous people.

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