The knowing : how the oppression of indigenous peoples continues to echo today / Tanya Talaga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talaga, Tanya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Canada--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Canada--Ethnic relations--History.

Canada.

Generational trauma.

Talaga, Tanya--Family.

Talaga, Tanya.

Physical Description:

xxii, 458 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2025.

Summary:

Explores the dark history of residential schools, "Indian hospitals" and asylums and their effects on indigenous peoples.

"For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being consigned to a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, M̌tis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada's greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment. The Knowing is the unfolding of history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of her country as only she can -- through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide. Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450) and index.

ISBN:

9781335015389

1335015388

OCLC:

1527041629