{"product_id":"the-knowing-how-the-oppression-of-indigenous-peoples-continues-to-echo-today-9781335015389","title":"The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e***Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book!***\u003cbr\u003e***Shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e is everything we've come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book - meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eDuncan McCue, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga comes a riveting exploration of the dark history of\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eresidential schools, \"Indian hospitals\" and asylums, \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efor readers of \u003cem\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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, Métis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Knowing \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply personal and meticulously researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTalaga, Tanya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tanya Talaga is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller\u003cem\u003e Seven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult\/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC's Nonfiction Book of the Year and a \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/em\u003eTop 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eAll Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward\u003c\/em\u003e. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e and is now a regular columnist at the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hanover Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51454131503378,"sku":"9781335015389","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d72c1b34-3dad-4d79-88f1-2ab97ad99225.jpg?v=1751996852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-knowing-how-the-oppression-of-indigenous-peoples-continues-to-echo-today-9781335015389","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}